Kwesi Pratt Predicts Increase In Fuel Prices

Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt has emphatically divined that fuel prices will go up in the next three days.

Responding to the announcement by the Public Utility and Regulatory Commission (PURC) to increase electricity tariffs earlier this week, which is to take effect on July 1st, Pratt envisaged the increase in fuel prices will take place within two or three days.

“I don’t want to be a prophet of doom but I can tell you that fuel prices will go up in a day or two,” he foretold during a panel discussion on Tuesday’s edition of ‘Kokrokoo’ on Peace FM.

The veteran journalist lamented on our inability and failure to make use of our experts to solve the myriad of problems bedeviling the power sector of the country.

“11 percent is not just…it is a lot. Now I hear water has also gone up…I am not a prophet of doom but I can predict that within a day or two the prices of fuel will go up again…this will make lives difficult for Ghanaians because while fuel prices are going up, water and electricity prices are also going up. What are we going to do about this?…we have experts in the country which government can fall on for advice so I don’t understand why we are suffering…we will go back and forth and then it will turn into politics; I just don’t understand,” he wailed.

The PURC has also announced an 8.01 percent increment in water tariffs.