False! Sale of old Metro Mass Transit buses predates NPP defeat

Claim: X user, @HassanGypsum, posted a video claiming Metro Mass Transit (MMT) management in Bantama, Ashanti region, is selling off buses as scraps after the NPP lost the 2024 elections.

Source: Fredamaquezz (X.com/@Hassangypsum) archived here

Verdict: False!

Explanation: The Ghana Fact-Checking Coalition (GFC) checks showed that although the Metro Mass Transit Limited is selling parts of broken buses as spare parts, the sale predates the 2024 General Election. The company advertised the sale of parts of broken buses in the dailies in October 2024. The MMTL policy is that functioning buses are not sold, only broken-down ones to reduce maintenance cost. A further investigation by the Coalition revealed that this is not the first time the company had sold parts of broken-down vehicles as spare parts. This was done in 2013 where the parts of 103 broken down buses were sold as spare parts. It is, therefore, not true that MMT started selling parts of broken-down buses after the NPP lost the election.