Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Consumer Protection Agency (CPA), Mr Kofi Kapito has revealed that ‘big men’ were not paying road tolls.
He said the state lost money through the failure of these personalities to pay tolls.
“Big men don’t pay tolls in Ghana so why wont they lose money,” he said on the New Day show on TV3 Friday May 12.
He wondered why the roads were bad although the tolls were being collected.
“how can you construct toll booth and the road near the booth is nonsense? He asked.
Also contributing on the same show, a private legal practitioner Mr Kwame Jantuah asked the government to account for the road tolls that were collected prior to suspending the collection.
He said the tolls were meant to refurbish the roads. However, these roads have not been in the best of shape.
This, he said, raises questions about what the tolls were used for.
“ideally, tolls are supposed to be used to maintain the roads but the state of the motorway has been the same,” he said.
“The road tolls that were collected, what have they been used for ?” He questioned.
GhanaFeed.com
