Beginning the next year, the government will begin using abandoned toll booths along important roadways in the nation as part of its strategy to generate cash.

This is in accordance with the measures outlined in the 2023 Budget Statement that Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta delivered to Parliament on November 24, 2022.

The 2023 Budget statement's paragraph 462 states that "the fiscal policy measures to support the 2023 Budget for consideration and approval by Parliament include the reintroduction of tolls on selected public roads and highways with a renewed focus on leveraging technology in the collection to address the inefficiencies characterized by the prior toll collection regime."

Tolling was removed in the 2022 budget as the government moved to introduce the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy) which revenue generation measure was dogged by controversies from its passage to its implementation.

Government in the 2023 Budget announced a reduction of the E-Levy rate from 1.5% to 1&% and the removal of a GHC300 threshold.

The Minority's ranking member on Transport in Parliament, Governs Kwame Agbodza, has welcomed the reintroduction of tolls but with a condition that monies raised will be strictly used for purposes of maintaining the roads.

“We welcome the decision by the Roads Minister to bring back road tolls. We take no pride in saying we told you so.

Mr. Speaker, it was populist, unnecessary and they were there shouting we are going to do it because we have e-levy…today they have brought a law here that they want to bring back road toll,” he said on the floor of the House.