{"id":220792,"date":"2026-01-17T11:40:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T09:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-well-restore-order-in-transport-sector-minister\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T09:40:56","slug":"ghana-well-restore-order-in-transport-sector-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-well-restore-order-in-transport-sector-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: We&#8217;ll Restore Order in Transport Sector &#8211; &#8211; Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">The Minister of Transport, Mr Joseph Bukari Nikpe, has pledged a renewed and coordinated effort with the Ministry of Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs to address the persistent exploitation of commuters by some commercial transport operators, particularly &#8220;trotro&#8221; drivers in Accra and other major cities across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">This follows a recent <em>The Ghanaian Times<\/em> report, which exposed how some drivers were deliberately charging arbitrary fares to the disadvantage of commuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Mr&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601160083.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Transport, Mr Joseph Bukari Nikpe, has pledged a renewed and coordinated effort with the Ministry of Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs to address the persistent exploitation of commuters by some commercial transport operators, particularly &#8220;trotro&#8221; drivers in Accra and other major cities across the country. This follows a recent The Ghanaian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":220793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4508,4509,5941,257,7576,7161,5991,254,8343],"class_list":["post-220792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-order","tag-restore","tag-sector","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transport"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}