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Trotro Drivers On Strike From May 19 Over Chaos On Roads

Commercial transport operators across the country to embark on a nationwide strike on Monday, May 19, 2025.

This comes as a protest against what they describe as the government’s failure to enforce provisions of the Road Traffic Regulations Act, 2012, which prohibits trading on roads, pavements, and at designated bus stops.

Their concern is in Sub-regulation 117 of the Act, which explicitly states “A person shall not sell, display, offer for sale or deliver under a sale, goods on or alongside a road; on a pedestrian walkway; within thirty metres of a railway level crossing; under a road traffic sign denoting a blind corner or rise on; within an intersection; or on or alongside a road including a toll booth and a plaza.”

According to the transport operators, authorities have failed to enforce it, allowing widespread disregard of the regulation and has led to unsafe road conditions and worsened traffic congestion in many parts of the country.

The Deputy Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU), Samuel Amoah, said at a press conference on Tuesday, May 13, that the ongoing violation of the law is putting drivers and passengers at risk.

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