The government of Ghana looking at easing traffic congestion while exploring other forms of revenue mobilization has directed the closure of bridge and road toll collection centers across the country. The directive has been met with grievances shared by some traders plying their trade around the toll collection points whose economic activities have been affected as a result of the policy coming into effect. He added that the purpose of operating tollbooths is not to create markets, hence the argument of the traders is flawed. So what the traders are saying that the government has rendered them jobless doesn’t make sense because the road tolls are not constructed to serve as market centres,” he stated. He however went ahead to suggest that government “needs to develop more markets to inhabit all these traders who are in this dilemma.”

Source: GhanaWeb November 24, 2021 05:11 UTC