[ 2017-02-01 ]

The move will ensure all revenues collected from the toll are properly accounted for

Government to automate all toll booths
The government of Ghana will ensure that all 35
toll booths in the country are automated to ensure
revenues are properly accounted for, Kwesi
Amoako-Attah, Minister-designate for Roads and
Highways, has said.

Speaking during his vetting by the Appointments
Committee of Parliament on Wednesday February 1,
he said: “We will improve on the feeder road
aspects of our total road network and that will
mean taking seriously the process of using the
Road Fund, which is set up for routine and
periodic maintenance.

“If we use that fund properly, we will be able
to put a lot of these feeder roads into good
shape, obviously for economic development and to
promote [trade] by bringing foodstuffs and other
cash crops that are locked in the hinterlands.

“It is important that we sharpen our competence
in road toll collection because road tolls are the
second highest contributor to the Road Fund. The
highest contributor to that fund is the fuel levy.
If you take all the toll booths in the country as
at now, we have 35 of them nationwide and out of
this 35, it is only four that are automated and
the four are the Ngleshie Amanfrom, Accra Plaza ,
Tema Plaza and the Amasaman booth.

“What I will do to improve on the toll
collection is to improve on the automation of many
of them as possible. I will ensure that those that
can be automated will be automated to improve toll
collection.”

Source - classfmonline.com

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