Roads and Highways Minister-designate, Kwame Agbodza, has revealed that much was not done by the previous government to pay outstanding amounts owed to road contractors.In his submission while before the Appointments Committee today, he noted that some road contractors are owed as little as GH¢5,000.He made the comment while expressing his displeasure over the cancellation of road tolls by the then-Akufo-Addo government.

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"They claimed road toll was accruing just ¢80 million but today there are road contractors working in Ghana which are owed GH¢5,000. So the road toll is coming back but not in the form building obstructions on the road for drivers to stop and somebody taking money from them but this coming in a form of technological and fair that will make it easy to collect," he stated.

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The minister-designate emphasised that road tolls would be reintroduced, however, in a digitized manner and eliminate physical barriers.He stated that the future system would involve technology, allowing for fairer and more efficient collection without the need for physical road obstructions or manual toll collection, ensuring a smoother experience for drivers.

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"We decided to caution government that do not cancel road toll but rather find a way to make it better. Which means that we should find a way blocking the leakages and enhance it. So it was surprising that it was canceled or they claimed they zeroed it.

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For me it was an act of illegality but it had an act and was a law and so they couldn’t unilaterally do that as a road I believe there were some level of negligence in the way it was done," he added.

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