According to him, the accepted tolling architectonics disproportionately affects beneath flush communities while exempting wealthier areas
His advancement comes afterwards the Finance Minister, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, appear that the government has accustomed affairs to arouse alley and arch tolls in 2025 during the presentation of the 2024 mid-year budgetary action analysis in Parliament
Read also: Government announces reintroduction of alley tolls in 2025 Speaking at the 50th Anniversary anniversary of the Ghana Highways Authority, Dr Bawumia appropriate that the time is accomplished for a tolling arrangement that ensures all citizens, behindhand of their socioeconomic status, accord to the country's basement development
"I'd like to accomplish a advancement that you could consider. Some may say it is provocative. If we are activity into our alley tolling, we charge to anticipate about broad-base tolling. The accepted architectonics that we acquire in tolling tends to exclude the flush genitalia of the population
"So if I alive in Cantonments, East Legon, Ridge, amid others which are the high-earning neighborhoods, I will not see a toll. But if I alive in Kasoa or about else, I am acceptable to accommodated a assessment on the way," he said on Wednesday
Dr Bawumia believed this would accompany candid administration of tolls, ensuring that all alley users, including those from flush neighborhoods, contribute
"There seems to be an bigotry in tolling and I acquire that we should attending at broad-base tolling because why shouldn't everybody pay?" he quizzed
In 2021, the government canceled alley assessment collections afterwards introducing the e-levy which has bootless to alive up to its promise
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