The Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Yaw Buaben Asamoah has revealed that what the government has canceled is public road tolls and private road tolls. Apexnewsgh.com report
According to him, the cancellation of the public road tolls was as a result of lack of equality and equity. “We are cheating the people who stay where the road tolls are. Because the government has its own toll areas and those people who lived and used the tolls are suffering because they are paying and the rest are getting the benefits and are not paying”.
Mr. Yaw Buaben Asamoah, made the clarification during an exclusive interview with Apexnews-Ghana on Wednesday, December 8, 2021. He believes the road toll levy wasn’t fair for all Ghanaians because only a few pay whiles others enjoy it.
“What we have canceled is public road tolls and not private road tolls because, in some areas in the world, private people can build road and toll it to recover their money, we are not there yet. So, we have public road tolls. We have abolished public road tolls.
“So, if you lived in Kasoa and there is a toll there and used trotro it means when you go in the morning you pay Gh1.00 and coming in the evening you pay another Ghc1.00 and that is Ghc 2.00 a day. Calculate 6 days a week that is Ghc 12.00. So, a trotro driver who works at Kasoa will pay road tolls but a trotro driver who is working at Nima to Roman ridge will never pay some. It is not fair. So because the road tolls points are not many and not many public roads are been tolled, what is happening is that those who lived in the area where the tolls are, are paying an indirect tax to the government and the rest of us are enjoying that tax-free and we are all getting good roads in spite of that.
“It is also very inconvenience because that creates a lot of traffic and when that traffic is created, two things happen, we waste fuel and we waste production time. We waste fuel because you are sitting in the traffic burning fuel, you cannot switch off your engine and when your engine is running you are creating pollution. Aside from that, the time the person in the car who is going to work has wasted is also another thing. Aside that, when they keep stopping at the toll, they also spoil the roads very fast because of the heavy movement there and the money government is getting from there is not also enough”. Mr. Yaw Buaben Asamoah explains
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