Governs Kwame Agbodza, the Roads and Highways Minister-designate has revealed the NPP government leaving a minimum of GH¢113bn commitments in the road sector.
He revealed that one of the most pressing worries is the GH¢20 billion in unpaid certificates.
The Minister-designate asserted that the figure presents a significant challenge for the John Mahama administration.
Speaking during his vetting by the Appointments Committee on Monday, January 20, Kwame Agbodza detailed, “The NPP government is leaving a minimum of GH¢100bn commitment, what you should be worried about though, in that same document, they are saying that the certificate unpaid as of today, for GoG, amounts to about 20 billion cedis. The ones with road funds are about 15 billion cedis”.
“If you take the indebtedness up to 2025, which is the road fund debt alone, out of the 15 billion”, he added.
The minister-designate for Roads and Highways further revealed that road tolls will be reintroduced with new technological platforms to rationalise revenue collection and ease traffic.
“It is a matter that has attracted national attention. Accrual to the road fund was only GH¢250 million and we worked to increase it to gh¢1.5 billion, today, it is over GH¢2 billion, so we cautioned the government against cancelling the road tolls and we were surprised that they cancelled it. It was an act of illegality to cancel it.”
“Yes, road toll is coming back but not in the form of bringing obstructions on the road but on a technical or mechanised platform that will make it easier to collect”, he stated boldly.
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