{"id":329117,"date":"2017-06-18T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=329117"},"modified":"2017-06-18T06:00:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T06:00:41","slug":"mandatory-towing-fee-unnecessary-casely-hayford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/mandatory-towing-fee-unnecessary-casely-hayford\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory towing fee \u201cunnecessary\u201d \u2013 Casely Hayford"},"content":{"rendered":"
Anti-corruption campaigner, Sydney Casely Hayford has described as unnecessary, the National Road Safety Commission\u2019s planned mandatory towing fee<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0for all motorists.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”ergGWDoAcu1YbtPdZ7Loe40IcJzSlxHE”]Speaking on Citi FM<\/strong>\u2019s News Analysis and Current Affairs program, The Big Issue<\/strong>, Mr Casely Hayford suggested that the program is an unnecessary arrangement implemented on an individualistic basis to benefit only persons whose vehicles break down along the road.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a totally unnecessary arrangement. I am not prepared to be forking out money so that someone who is careless enough to leave their truck by the roadside makes me pay for it to be towed. I pay my insurance as an individual person and if I have to make a claim on my insurance company, I go and make my claim,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Last month, National Road Safety Commission announced that effective July 1, 2017, vehicle owners and motorcyclists will be made to pay a compulsory annual fee, tied to the acquisition of road worthy certificate, to cater for towing services of disabled vehicles.<\/p>\n Following the announcement, many have criticized the decision, describing it is as unfair.<\/p>\n Others have suggested that the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) rather adopts \u2018pay-as-you go\u2019 service to allow disabled vehicles owners pay for the towing service.<\/p>\n Speaking on Citi FM’s News Analysis Programme, The Big Issue, Casley Hayford sided with those kicking against the move, saying \u00a0his anti-corruption group, Occupy Ghana will take up the matter to \u201cstop it,\u201d if it is not scrapped.<\/p>\n \u201cIf it doesn\u2019t get stopped, this is an Occupy Ghana fight. We will stop it. This is enabling a particular individual to benefit from us,” he told host of the show, Umaru Sanda Amadu<\/p>\n ‘Halt mandatory towing fee program’<\/strong><\/p>\n The Deputy Minority \u00a0Leader, James Avedzi Klutse, had also backed calls for the implementation of a mandatory vehicle towing fee to be halted<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n He had argued that since majority of Ghanaians who are targets of the program are kicking against it, it should be withdrawn.<\/p>\n “[The\u00a0move should be suspended, since] the genuine and good citizens will be paying for recalcitrant citizens who do not want to obey the law…If it gets to the implementation and everybody is against it then it should be withdrawn,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n