Road users in Ghana may be asked to pay more at toll booths in the coming months.
This is because the Parliamentary Select Committee on Roads and Transport, is proposing an increase in road tolls.
[contextly_sidebar id=”lPwf4jZ0CbenZEsn8AHn0evKcMLrKyG5″]According to the Chairman of the select Committee, Theophilus Tetteh Chai, the National Road Fund receives 300 million cedis out of a possible 850 million cedis; a situation he said hinders the development and maintenance of roads in the country.
According to him, “the purpose of the road fund was to ensure that adequate resources would be mobilized for road maintenance.”
Mr. Tetteh Chai also stated that the resources available for road maintenance are not enough to meet the required needs.
“A lot more resources are needed to ensure that maintenance works can be carried through; but because resources are not enough to meet all our road maintenance needs, there is always a short fall,” he said.
“Every year, there is a shortfall and as such, we are not able to carry out maintenance of road networks.”
Mr. Tetteh Chai indicated that a potential increment would significantly reduce their yearly monetary shortfall and improve the maintenance of road networks across the country.
“If the Road Fund, that is the tolls, are also increased, that will be able to cater for the shortfall, then a lot of road maintenance activities can be done,” he added.
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By Delali Adogla-Bessa/citifmonline.com/Ghana