All road tolls to be made Electronic in 2023 – Minister of Roads and Highways announces

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The Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwesi Amoako-Atta has announced its intention to layoff human personnel and replace all road tolls with electronics.

This therefore means payment of road tolls would be collected electronically.

“We are going to build modern expressway which will come with tolling facilities but those tolling facilities will be electronic tolling facility…if it has to come, it will be done electronically,” he said.

Amoako-Atta also cautioned drivers who ply the road to brace themselves for more tolls due to the countries economic crisis.

“The whole year, we were getting an average of GHC 78 Million depending upon the ground condition, that amount of money cannot even build 10km of road. We were paying the lowest toll in the whole world. Meanwhile, we want excellent and good roads in our country.

“We want good things; we must be prepared to pay for more. We will no longer be paying the 50 pesewas and GHC 1,” he addded.

The reintroduction of the road toll is one of the revenue measures contained in the 2023 budget presented to Parliament by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta.

In November 2021, the government announced the scrapping of road toll collection on all major highways across the country.

Less than a year, the government has made a U-turn to reintroduce the collection of the tolls.

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