Ghanaians will from today [Monday] pay 15% more on transport fares following an increment announced by the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU).<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”1hIChArE68JNejCn5t7KZCPRxxNAsd58″]The increment comes on the back of a mid-year review of fares by the union in the midst of announced increases in fuel prices.<\/p>\n
The General Secretary of the Union, Stephen Okudzeto in an earlier interview with Citi News<\/strong> said the increment has been communicated to all stakeholders including the Transport Ministry.<\/p>\n \u201cWe engaged the services of a consultant this time and this is our last increase since January,\u201d he said adding that they took into consideration a number of factors in the \u201cmarket including the recent fuel increase of 9 percent and the 4 percent which equals 13 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOur threshold is 10 percent and after we key in all those components we realized that transport fares should be reviewed and as a result of that we decided to come out with a moderate increase of 10 percent so that the commuters will not feel it that much, taking effect on Monday,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The National Petroleum Authority (NPA), has increased fuel prices twice in less than two months.<\/p>\n On May 17 and June 16, petroleum prices were increased by 17%<\/strong><\/a><\/span> and 14 pesewes<\/strong><\/a><\/span> respectively.<\/p>\n Following the fuel increases transport operators had insisted that transport fares should be reviewed but the matter was deferred to \u00a0the\u00a0Transport Fares Review Committee.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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