Some Ghanaians have expressed\u00a0anger at the recent increase in both fuel prices and transport fares.<\/p>\n
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) on Sunday announced a 23 percent increment in petrol, 22 percent in diesel and 23.75 percent in kerosene to the displeasure of many.<\/p>\n
The Ghana Road Transport Coordinating Council (GRTCC) has also announced a 15 percent increment in transport fare citing increment in petroleum products.<\/p>\n
But some Ghanaians who spoke to Citi News<\/strong> on the streets of Accra expressed their displeasure at the two increments.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery blessed day, they have been increasing without good motives and moreover, we don\u2019t even see the essence of the increment. It doesn\u2019t make sense to the public,\u201d a passenger told Citi News.<\/p>\n He pleaded with the government to increase salaries concurrently with fuel increments because \u201ctimes are hard.\u201d<\/p>\n Another also lamented saying, \u201cliving in Ghana now is very hard and the situation is very bad and we need to survive. Our leaders must do something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n He bemoaned the recent increment in utility tariffs coupled with the hikes in fuel prices and transport fares \u201cour leaders must certainly do something about because we are really suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n But the government says the decision had to be made because it was spending huge sums on money on paying subsidies.<\/p>\n Deputy Energy Minister, John Jinapor said other vital sectors of the economy are bound to benefit with the removal of subsidies.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some Ghanaians have expressed\u00a0anger at the recent increase in both fuel prices and transport fares. The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) on Sunday announced a 23 percent increment in petrol, 22 percent in diesel and 23.75 percent in kerosene to the displeasure of many. The Ghana Road Transport Coordinating Council (GRTCC) has also announced a 15 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-31691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}