GPRTU must stop this behaviour of commercial drivers

Dear Editor,

I write through your medium to draw the attention of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) about some anomalies in fares charged by some trotro drivers.

I have been a regular passenger that plies the Circle-Nsawam and Circle-Kasoa stretches and have been a victim of this practice by the drivers and their ‘mates.’

What happen is that because vehicles on these stretches are difficult to come by, the drivers and ‘mates’ resort to charging exorbitant fares, sometimes twice the approved ones before admitting passengers on board.

Passengers that insists on their rights are often left behind. Having been unsuccessful in stopping this trend, passengers appear to have given up unless one is ready to wait to the late hours of the evening.

This is a very difficult situation for passengers on these two routes and others. They are forced to pay far more than what they can.

The situation gets worse when it rains. This generates long queues at the various stations.

I hope that through this letter, the GPRTU will investigate this problem and identify the drivers and mates responsible and be sanctioned. When passengers complain, they either attribute it to the traffic situation or the bad nature of the roads.

The situation is not fair and the earlier the GPRTU acts upon this, the better it would be for the passengers to pay reasonable fares.

Rosemond Boakye,

Kasoa

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