The outgone NDC government has left the Nana Addo led administration an outstanding commitment of 17.2 billion cedis in the roads sector, Minister Designate for \u00a0Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako Atta has revealed.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”VYFcCKZLhcJcRrabwu3yz5OovJzZPai6″]He describes the figures as alarming as government\u2019s revenue streams are inadequate to meet the rising debts.<\/p>\n
Mr. Amoako Atta made the disclosure when he met the Appointments Committee of Parliament on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a commitment of 17.2 billion cedis on road contracts and we have 1,282 road contracts with 87 bridges ongoing we have almost 900 million certificates raised and ready resting and gathering dust at the Ministry of Finance unpaid,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cIt\u2019s quite frightening and there is a huge funding gap and the true state of affairs is that awards were being made without proper reference to expected inflows.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile the road levy that is established to generate revenue to offset some of these debts is also not performing as expected.<\/p>\n
The fund is reported to be generating an annual return of 1.2 billion cedis.<\/p>\n
Energy sector levies increases road fund allocation<\/strong><\/p>\n The disclosure comes at a time that the NPP government has announced to review downwards the energy sector levies.<\/p>\n The levy also increased the allocation to the road sector fund from 4 pesewas to 70 pesewas.<\/p>\n Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko maintains that the revision is necessary to relief consumers of the huge tax burden.<\/p>\n Responding to concerns on whether or not the energy sector levies were a nuisance tax, Kwasi Amoako Atta rather called for more pragmatic efforts to address the issue.<\/p>\n \u201cWhatever we do to improve our economic situation, no matter the difficulty must be done with a human face\u2026we needn\u2019t embark upon anything at all.\u201d<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The outgone NDC government has left the Nana Addo led administration an outstanding commitment of 17.2 billion cedis in the roads sector, Minister Designate for \u00a0Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako Atta has revealed. [contextly_sidebar id=”VYFcCKZLhcJcRrabwu3yz5OovJzZPai6″]He describes the figures as alarming as government\u2019s revenue streams are inadequate to meet the rising debts. Mr. Amoako Atta made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,11,1166],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n