Ghanaians have begun to publicly discuss the government's plan to reintroduce road tolls after reviewing how they were discontinued.
With the release of the 2022 budget in November 2021, the government abolished road tolls and introduced the Electronic Transaction Levy as a more inclusive method of raising funds.
According to the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, the removal of tolls was introduced to reduce the constant vehicular traffic on many major urban roads where tolls are charged to increase productivity.
Roads Minister Kwasi Amoako Atta approved the immediate suspension of toll collection after introducing the policy without parliamentary approval of the budget, which many Ghanaians saw as an unpopular way of getting the e-levy message across.
After a year and a few months, the government announced the reintroduction of the toll, drawing criticism from the public for the way it took over the collection of the toll without seeking any input.
Even the government's intention to turn the toll booths into public urinals was announced by Mr Amoako Atta.
The renovation of the toll booths will now require more government spending before they can be operational.
Ransford Edward Van Gyampo, a professor of political science at the University of Ghana, in an interview with Captain Smart on Maakye Monday, 20 March 2023, said Ghana is going through an economic crisis as a result of the government's blatant intransigence.
He claims that the reason Ghana's economy is tanking under him is because we have a president who has immunised himself from public scrutiny and decided to be intransigent.
According to the former Director of European Studies at the University of Ghana, governance is too important a matter to be left in the hands of political point-scorers who are either ignorant of governance or have simply chosen to profit from the ignorance of the populace.
Speaking in Twi, he lamented that because of their arrogance, pride and know-it-all attitude, they didn't heed our recommendations on the removal of road tolls. Now we are going to use the money to renovate the toll booths to bring it (tolls) back.
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