If our members fail to reduce fares don’t beat them, report to Police – PRO of GPRTU

The Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU), Alhaji Abbas Ibrahim Moro, has pleaded with commuters not to beat commercial drivers who refuse to comply with a 15% reduction in transport fares announced by the Union.

This follows his revelation that the Union has directed its members to reduce transport fares by 15% effective Saturday, May 25, 2025.

According to him, the decision was arrived at after a meeting held between the National Executive of the GPRTU and officials of the Ministry of Transport.

“We met with the Transport Ministry today after a marathon meeting, we finally decided to reduce transport fares by 15 percent, effective coming Saturday (May 25),” he said in an exclusive interview with Alfred Ocansey in a yet to be aired interview on Ghana Tonight.

He stressed that members of the Union who fail to comply with the directive will have themselves to blame.

“We are in Ghana and the laws of the land must be abided by every citizen. Each time we increase lorry fares, everybody patronizes the increment, so shall it be, if there is a reduction, everybody should be prepared to comply. Anybody who decides not to comply, the passengers should report to the nearest police. We are not saying they should be beaten, we are pleading, nobody should be beaten, but it should be handed over to the nearest police, they come across,” he stated.

Asked if he wants members of the public to cause the arrest of the drivers, Alhaji Moro said, “It is the public who have been cheated, so we are just pleading they shouldn’t beat anybody, but they should do the right thing by handing them over to the police. As we speak now, if we are through with this, we will descend on some of our members to make sure to flush out the bad nuts from the system.”

The announced reduction in transport fares comes amidst calls by stakeholders for reduction in transport fares due to drop in prices of fuel at the pumps. However, Alhaji Moro said the decision to reduce the fares is their contribution to government’s reset agenda.

“The fuel price has dropped by, let’s say 18%. So the tradition we do is that we divide it by 3 and use one-third of it. But we decided on 15% based on fuel price. We are also hopeful that our brothers in the spare parts business will reduce their prices as well,” he stated.

“We want to place on record that we did not wait for the other components of our cost build up to reduce before the 15% reduction.  The lubricants are still at where they are, documentations like permits, taxes and DVLA, what we’ve been paying, are still at where they are, but we consider as our contribution towards resetting of Ghana, and we come up with this initiative,” Alhaji Moro explained.

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