The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) has scheduled a meeting with its Welfare Executives in the Greater Accra Region on Tuesday, January 20.

This is part of efforts to reintroduce identification tags for commercial vehicles to address unauthorised fare increases.

The planned engagement follows an announcement by the Ministry of Transport that transport unions had agreed to bring back vehicle identification tags as a regulatory measure to help sanitise the sector and protect commuters from exploitation by unapproved or “floating” drivers.

Speaking on Channel One TV on Monday, January 19, the Deputy Industrial and Public Relations Officer of the GPRTU, Samuel Amoah, said the meeting would centre on finalising the framework for rolling out the identification system, with particular attention on Greater Accra, where fare-related complaints are most frequent.

He explained that the regional leadership would work with Welfare Executives to agree on the design and visibility of the tags to ensure they are easily recognisable by passengers. “

Since the current problem is with Greater Accra, the regional leadership is meeting all the Welfare executives tomorrow to plan the implementation,” Mr Amoah said.

He added that while the exact form of the identification tags was yet to be determined, the priority was visibility.

“We will decide on how it will be visible. However, we will do something that will be visible; it doesn’t necessarily have to do with colour. That is why we are meeting the various Welfare Executives tomorrow,” he noted.

Beyond the identification tags, the union is also expected to put in place a dedicated task force to monitor compliance and enforce approved fare structures across commercial transport routes.