The road transport association’s order requiring a 10% cut in fares has not yet been complied with by transportation providers worldwide.
Drivers and conductors are disobeying the association’s mandate to implement the fare cut beginning on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, despite the association’s announcement on Monday, May 15, 2023, instructing its members to do so.
Drivers and conductors are not following the directive, according to tests done by Citi News at different truck terminals.
The Concerned Drivers Association objected to the charge drop, citing rising costs for goods like replacement components.
In defiance of the order for a 10% cut, charges at Accra’s Tema Station Transport Terminal remain the same.
A frustrated passenger expressed his displeasure, saying, “They haven’t cut it, even though we heard they were meant to reduce the fares by 10%. I don’t want to trouble myself by talking about it because I observed someone complain to the drivers and they insulted her.
The station master at the same terminal voiced his displeasure with the high costs of automobile parts and contended that asking for a fare reduction only because of the drop in the price of gasoline is unfair to the passengers.
“The price of spare parts has gone up, and some other things,” the station master lamented.
The station master did, however, order the arrest of any drivers who do not strictly abide by the required 10% cut in transportation fares.Similar circumstances were seen in Kumasi, the Ashanti Region’s capital, where fare reductions have not been enforced, and drivers gave the same justifications for their resistance.Checks made in the town of Bimbilla in the Northern Region also turned up evidence of non-compliance with the directive: passengers were being charged the old tariffs.
Passengers who anticipated to gain from the decline in fuel prices are concerned about the transport companies’ failure to comply with the direction for fare reduction.
