Opinion › Feature Article       25.05.2023

Tolling roads is the best option - if we want world-class roads nationwide

Tolling roads is by far the best option for Ghanaians - if we want world-class roads nationwide. As a wise and aspirational African people, surely we must no longer tolerate bad roads in our communities - constructed at great cost to hapless taxpayers but shoddily constructed despite that? Haaba.

In other words, we are a society in which the state builds expensive roads that invariably deteriorate rapidly, after a year or two. Scandalous. Unpardonable. Shameful. Intolerable. Full stop.

That said, the question to ponder over is: Will communities (both rural and urban) across our homeland Ghana, not willingly, and happily, pay tolls to use roads, which are world-class and always well maintained?

In that light, if governments-of-the-day are perpetually broke, why does the road sector industry association not talk instead to pension funds and insurance companies - to provide their members with longterm funding for constructing world-class roads: and split profits from toll revenues with those local road contractors? Simple commonsense, is it not, Ghanafuor? Tolling roads is by far the best option for our nation - if we want world-class roads nationwide, oooo, Ghanafuor. Yoooooooo...

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