Secretary for the Ghana Cooperative Transport Society (Pedu Station-Cape Coast), Madam Fauzia Talata Iddrisu has shared her outmost displeasure following the government’s inability to scrap off certain taxes as transport operators demanded.
He said the operators had wanted the pollution and sanitation taxes placed on fuel amid yesterday’s one-on-one meeting with their transport bosses GPRTU removed.
Madam Fauzia in her submissions stated that though the government has done something by reducing prices of the state-owned fuel (GOIL) from its initial price of GH6.85ps per litre to currently GH6.70ps, it will go nowhere to ease the burden placed on their drivers.
She said fuel prices at other filling stations are still highly purged.
She noted that due to the unstable nature of fuel increase and the recent taxes placed on fuel, it has made their drivers always at the receiving end of bashes from passengers, which is gradually killing their business.
Government directed the Ghana Oil Company (GOIL) to reduce price of fuel at the pumps effective Tuesday, December 7.
This was after a crunch meeting between government and transport operators at the Presidency on Monday evening.
A litre of fuel which was sold at GHS6.85 is now selling at GHS6.70.
The government took this decision in response to the demands of commercial drivers who embarked on a sit-down strike over hikes in fuel prices.
By: Rainbowradioinline.com/Ghana
