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SOME TROTRO drivers in the capital of Accra have taken advantage of the new upward adjustment of fuel to charge passengers exorbitant fares despite their umbrella body, the Ghana Road Transport Coordinating Council (GRTCC)declaring that they increase the fare by 10%. As a result some passengers are calling on government to put pressure on the appropriate officials to ensure that its members adhere to the new directive. Passengers who are yet to come to terms with this development have been engaging the drivers in verbal blows since Tuesday evening. Checks made by the Daily Heritage across some of the bus terminals indicated that, for example, from the Kwame Nkrumah Circle to Nungua passengers now pay GH�1.70p instead of GH�1.50p. Speaking to the paper in an interview, the station master at Odawna Ghana Private Roads Transport Union, Henry Attah-Ankrah said though official announcement is yet to be made their drivers have been asked to increase their fares. For example he said, �Assuming a passenger boards a vehicle from Kasoa to Circle, he or she is supposed to pay GH�2.50p instead of the initial GH�2.10 pesewas.� At the Obra Spot,the assistant station master, Kofi Andoh, said the drivers were charging fares with a difference of 20 pesewas from the initial fares that was supposed to be charged. �In case a passenger boards a vehicle from Circle to Teshie, that passenger is supposed to pay a fare of GHc1.70 pesewas instead of the initial price of GHc1.50 pesewas,� he stressed. He noted that till GRTCC come out with the new fares; they will stay by the same fares they are charging now.