Governs Kwame Agbodza, the Ranking Member on the Roads and Transport Committee in Parliament has asked the government to re-introduce road toll collection across the country as he believes the country is losing huge sums of money a day.
According to him, the government to reverse the cessation of the tolls and show Ghanaians real results in improving the country’s road infrastructure.
He made this assertion during an interview with an Accra based radio station.
“No driver complained of road tolls except for the fact that they said they are paying for the road tolls and that money is not used to improve their roads. The Roads Minister took an illegal decision that is affecting the payment of road toll.”
“We are willfully losing GH¢250,000 a day, and now we want to spend more money. I am saying that, if they bring back the road tolls today, that will not be too much burden on the taxpayer because they are used to it. But what you are forcing on them is E-levy, which has not been approved [yet]”, he advised.
“The government said it was going to make GH¢6 billion from the E-levy, but what percentage of it will go into the payment of road contractors. They claim the tax is going to be used to create jobs and pay road contractors. There is nothing in the E-levy Bill that says that it is going to be used to pay contractors. That is the problem currently. So E-levy is not going to eradicate the indebtedness of government to road contractors. It may reduce it, but not in its entirety,” he stated.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Joseph Asare
