Bring Back Tolls Through 2023 Budget - Former Tollbooth Attendants

The former workers of the various toll booths across the country are demanding reintroduction of toll collections. They want government to make such an announcement in the 2023 Budget Statement, scheduled to be read in Parliament on November 30, 2022. Transport Ministry on November 18, 2021, announced an immediate cessation

of the collection of tolls. The action was also taken after the government claimed there was chaos at various tollbooths following an announcement the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta made in the 2022 budget on the cessation of such revenue collection. Speaking to the media a year after they were laid off, Secretary to the

Ghana Toll Workers Union Edward Duncan said toll workers have been forced back on the streets while others face eviction from their landlords. Most of my colleagues are knocking on the doors of companies, but the jobs are not there, so we hope that the Government will understand or know that they made a mistake with

that policy [cancellation] and then they have to reverse it and come back. We are also hoping and looking at the announcement they will make concerning toll collection. We are keen on that because it has been a year since the tolls were cancelled and there is no livelihood and there is nothing for us, he lamented. Ghanaians condemned

the cancellation and demanded its immediate reversal. The Minority Caucus in Parliament also demanded its reinstatement but the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu praised the cancellation saying that it was timely implemented to save lives and properties.