Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has suggested expanding Ghana’s road-tolling system to be more inclusive.
In the 2022 budget, the government abolished road tolls and introduced the electronic transaction levy (E-Levy) instead.
Former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta justified this move by citing congestion at toll booths.
However, in the midyear budget review, the government announced that road tolls would return in 2025.
Speaking at the Ghana Highway Authority’s 50th anniversary, Dr. Bawumia highlighted that the current tolling system is unfair because not everyone encounters tollbooths.
He recommended broadening the system to include all road users before it is reintroduced.
“My view is that we need to think about broad-based tolling. The current architecture that we have in tolling tends to exclude even the wealthier parts of the population and so if I live in Cantonment, East Legon, or Ridge, which are high-end neighbourhoods, I will not see a tollbooth.
“But if I live in Kasoa or somewhere else, I am likely to meet a tollbooth on the road, and there seems to be an inequity in tolling, and so I believe that we should look at broad-based tolling.”
