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According to them, the companies have contributed to their reduced sales by reducing trip fares for customers. The group noted that their daily sales were taking a massive hit due to the recent hike in fuel prices in the country. Marching through the streets of Kumasi, some of the drivers held placards with various inscriptions to express their displeasure. They threatened to continue the strike until their concerns are duly addressed by the ride-hailing companies. The government announced a number of taxes to be imposed on Ghanaians during the reading of the 2021 budget. These tax...

Don’t Increase Transport Fares Yet - Commercial Vehicle Drivers Told

According to them, the companies have contributed to their reduced sales by reducing trip fares for customers. The group noted that their daily sales were taking a massive hit due to the recent hike in fuel prices in the country. Uber and Bolt drivers hit the streets to protest over poor fares Pulse Ghana Marching through the streets of Kumasi, some of the drivers held placards with various inscriptions to express their displeasure. They threatened to continue the strike until their concerns are duly addressed by the ride-hailing compa...

History is replete with all manner of politicians who created a cause célèbre (a controversial issue that attracts a great deal of public attention), and then rode it like a rampaging horse to political power. And history is similarly replete with politicians who gifted their opponents the cause célèbre with which to take them out of power. One such cause célèbre seems to have cropped up naturally (unnaturally?) around the “Fix the Country” campaign, and its counter-campaigners, on the recently introduced tax increases in Ghana, which has led to increments in petrole...

Moses Asaga criticises govt for new tax policy May 6, 2021 A former Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Moses Asaga, has criticised the government for introducing new tax policies in the 2021 budget statement. “It will be unfair for consumers to pay more for fuel as a result of the new taxes and there should be an alternative way of raising more funds,” he said. Three of the new taxes which took effect on May 1, 2021, are as a result of the imposition of an Energy Sector Recovery Levy of 20 pesewas per litre on petrol/diesel, 18 pesewas per kg on Liquefied P...