{"id":444255,"date":"2017-12-06T11:11:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T11:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/06\/fuel-hikes-drivers-march-today\/"},"modified":"2017-12-06T11:11:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T11:11:06","slug":"fuel-hikes-drivers-march-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/06\/fuel-hikes-drivers-march-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel hikes: Drivers march today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Wednesday,  6 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-06<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/96558893.295.jpg\" alt=\"Fuel Hike Drivers Angry\" title=\"Fuel Hike Drivers Angry\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Some commercial drivers are expected to hit the streets to protest against increment in fuel prices<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512558666_813_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Members of the Concerned Drivers Union are set to go on a demonstration today, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 in protest against what they say is a rampant increase in the price of petroleum products in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Fuel prices have seen increases since early this year without commensurate increases in transport fares, a situation the commercial road transport operators describe as unfair.<\/p>\n<p>A planned demonstration by the group last month was scuttled by the police after the drivers insisted on using their vehicles in a procession.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson for the drivers, David Agboado, speaking to Class News said they can no longer afford to buy fuel for their business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to demonstrate about the fuel increase and then the tow levy but the main issue is the rampant fuel increases these days. The reason why we want to hit the streets is that now we cannot afford to buy the fuel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are now running our transport business as charity because we buy the fuel at high cost and then we dash it out to the passengers. <\/p>\n<p>Formerly, we were buying the fuel at GHS14,30 and now the fuel is GHS20,20 and we cannot afford it that\u2019s why we want to demonstrate\u2026 we have engaged government several times [but to no avail].\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 50 updated by: 50 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business News of Wednesday, 6 December 2017 Source: classfmonline.com 2017-12-06 Some commercial drivers are expected to hit the streets to protest against increment in fuel prices Members of the Concerned Drivers Union are set to go on a demonstration today, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 in protest against what they say is a rampant increase in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":444256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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