The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) will from today, Monday, January 19, 2026, clampdown on commercial transport operators who exploit commuters during peak hours in Accra.
For some months now, commercial transport operators, locally referred to as ‘trotro‘, charge double of the usual transport fares at peak hours when many people are scrambling for vehicles to their homes.
Aside from charging double fares at a go, some also run shorter distances and reload the passengers who end up paying up to three times of the usual fare before reaching their destinations.
It is believed that the operators have been creating artificial shortage of vehicles during such times to exploit commuters.
The GPRTU says it is going to deploy some personnel to identified hotspots beginning today, to help bring such drivers to book.
General Secretary of the Union, Godfred Abulbire, speaking to Citi FM on Sunday, January 18, indicated that drivers who will fall foul to the law and exploit passengers will be sanctioned accordingly, including loading bans and possible termination of their membership.
“What the drivers fear is banning them from loading. We have our own task force to ensure that they can’t go anywhere. From what we have discussed, we have decided that on Monday, we will deploy most of our guys to all the vantage points where these exploitation take place to check if indeed these are our cars or not,” he said.
Mr Abulbire explained that the Union also plans to introduce a branding system to make it easier to identify vehicles operating under the GPRTU.
“We will begin to brand our cars with GPRTU on them. If we see that you then go out to exploit people, we will fish you out and then take you out of the union,” he added.
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