The public has been urged by the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) to ignore a rumored increase in transportation costs starting on Wednesday, September 21, 2022.
On Wednesday, a few transportation unions gave notice of their plan to raise prices by 30%.
Although the GPRTU supports an increase in transportation costs, it believes that before such a decision is made, the government must be consulted and other concerns must be considered.
Godfred Abulbire, the general secretary of the GPRTU, informed Citi News that the leadership of the union has started the procedures for such interaction with the Ministry of Transportation.
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“Our position is that, fuel prices have gone up, which must be equated to fare increment. But that is not the only component we consider when adjusting prices.”
“A committee has been set up to do the fact-finding for the report to be submitted to the Minister so we agree. But settling on a particular margin and timeline now will be creating fear and panic”, he said.
He further decried a drastic reduction in the patronage of commercial road transport due to the increase in transport fares.
Transport fares went up by 20 percent in May.
As of May 9, 2022, when the new fares took effect, petrol and diesel were selling at a national average of GH¢9.41 and GH¢11.12, respectively.
At the moment, the price of petrol per litre has crossed GH¢11 and diesel sells for over GH¢14 per litre at most pumps.
