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Cessation of Road Toll Collection ‘A Chain Around Our Necks’ – Ofori-Atta

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Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has admitted that government’s cessation of collection of road tolls prior to the approval of the 2022 Budget has become a threat to the government’s revenue generation efforts.

Speaking at a town hall meeting held in the Volta Region on Friday, the Minister said the appropriation bill was passed quickly because the government had confidence in its direction.

However, he said the politicisation of the passage of the E-levy, has created problems for the government.

“The challenge really is, we passed the appropriation very quickly because there was an absolute belief in the direction that we were going and then the politics came to stall the issue of the revenue measure which is E-levy, and therefore, the issue of the tolls being disbanded having become a chain around our necks,” he said.

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