Transport operators in the country have been given notice to raise transportation fares if no action is taken to combat the country’s rising fuel prices.
Prices at the pump increased by one pesewa on Thursday, November 4, 2021, from GHS6.80p to GHS6.90p.
Passengers and transportation operators are dissatisfied because the government recently approved a two-month suspension of the Price Stabilization and Recovery Levies (PRSL) on petrol, diesel, and LPG.
The directive was supposed to go into effect in November, but consumers in Ghana are seeing an increase in fuel prices.
On Friday, the General Secretary of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU), Godfred Abulbire, warned that if the government does not sit with them and deliberate on the issue, transport operators will be forced to raise transport fares on Tuesday, November 9, 2021.
“We have taken a certain position. We think we have to take a different approach so we have submitted a proposal to the Transport Minister since last month and by Tuesday if we don’t hear anything, we shall increase our fares”.
Mr. Abulbire went on to say that “we know the margin of increasing our fares by the margin of the fuel price adjustment.”
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