The Minister of Roads and Highways-designate, , has announced that the government will not be putting up toll booths for the re-introduction of road tolls.
Speaking at his vetting in Parliament on Monday, January 20, 2025, Kwame Agbodza said that the government would be rely on technology for the collection of the tolls when they are re-introduced.
He said that there would be no physical structures on the roads for the collection of the tolls; adding that the use of technology would not only ensure efficiency in the collection of the tolls, but would also ensure accountability. "Yes, the road toll is coming back, but not in the form of building obstructions on the road for drivers to stop and somebody taking money from them.
It will be coming back based on a technological platform that makes it fair and that makes it easy to collect, easy to account for and for the public to know what the money is actually being used for. "Together with the (sic) minister, we shall come out with a policy as to how that will be done," he said while answering a question on the tolls being reintroduced.
