Today, Thursday, May 5, 2022, transportation operators are meeting to determine fare increases.
The operators claim that in order to save their businesses, they must raise transportation fares.
The announcement by the Ghana Road Transport Union (GPRTU) follows President Akufo-comments Addo’s during the May Day celebrations that the government cannot do anything about the demands of organized labor and transport unions for a reduction in fuel prices in the country.
Alhaji Abbas Ibrahim Moro, the GPRTU’s Industrial Relations Officer, made the revelations to Alfred Ocansey on 3FM’s Sunrise on Thursday.
“It’s unfortunate the President came out with that statement because it is too much for us as professional drivers. We have no choice. Our people are still on our neck so we are going to increase transport fares else we can’t survive”.
Alhaji Moro explained that “it will cripple the business that we are doing if we don’t increase fares”.
“If we don’t, we will be folding up one after the other”.
He assured the increment “will be something reasonable. We are waiting for the government to intervene. If the government does not intervene we will go out with the increment and we are meeting today because yesterday, we were not in the office”.
