Govt, Roads Ministry Have Not Been Fair To Us – Fmr. Toll Booth Workers Fumes

Former toll booth workers across the country have expressed disappointment in the Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Atta, accusing him of turning a deaf ear to their plights after he announced the cessation of toll collection in the country two years ago.

Most of the workers who are persons with disabilities accused the Minister and the Government of neglect, breach of trust, and insensitivity for kicking them out of dignified employment.

According to them,life has been hard for them since the ministry collapsed the toll collection.

They said the Ministry promised to support them, but they have refused to fulfill that promise.

On November 18, 2021, the Ministry of Roads and Highways hurriedly directed the immediate discontinuation of the collection of tolls on all public roads and bridges across the country after the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, gave a hint on a similar exercise in his 2022 Budget Statement.

The Finance Minister said the measure was to help prevent congestion and pollution in and around the vicinities in which toll booths were situated.

But many Ghanaians, including former toll workers, said the measure had not only worsened the economic well-being of people that depended on the booths for their source of income through selling but has also caused financial loss to the state because the booths are wasting away while the nation has to continue to pay loans contracted to build them.

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