The Western Regional Vice Chairman of the Ghana Private Road and Transport Union (GPRTU), Mr Joseph Kingsley Eshun has described the reduction of fuel prices as insignificant.
He observed that the reduction of the fuel as it stands now was not enough to ease the burden and hardship brought on drivers in the country.
Mr Eshun made the statement on Spice Fm’s Adzekye Mu Nsem when the host Kwame Offei asked about the rationale behind the suspension of the intended strike action by the commercial drivers across the country.
He revealed that the leadership of the Union were yet to brief its members on the outcome of the meeting with the President.
The drivers for some time have lamented over some levies placed on fuel calling on the Government to scrap it off.
The drivers were of the view that such levies were the cause for the hike in fuel prices and therefore asked the Government to remove seven (7) of the levies made up of the Energy Fund Levy, Sanitation and Pollution Levy, Price Stabilization and Recovery Levy, Energy Sector Levy, Special Petroleum Tax, Road Fund Levy and Energy Debt Recovery Levy, all summing up to GH¢ 1.50.
Meanwhile, the drivers through the leadership of the Union on Monday, December 06, 2021, embarked on a sit-down strike in protest of the high fuel prices, leaving commuters across the country no option but to trek to their various destinations.
The sit-down strike was, however, suspended on the back of President Akuffo Addo’s meeting with the leadership of the driver Unions.
Story: Benedicta Ackney
