The Constituency Communication Director of the New Patriotic Party in the Bolgatanga Central Constituency of the Upper East Region, Ibrahim Akolgo, has explained the comments by the Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako Atta were unfortunate and could have been avoided.
According to Mr. Akolgo the Minister, who highly respected by Ghanaians should have known better and avoided that rather “unfortunate comment” he made in an interview with the media, explaining that, when the Minister first announced the cessation of road tolls at the various tollbooth it was quite worrying considering the revenue that is generated through the collection of the tolls. But when the Minister subsequently explained that, it had suspended the tolls because of the congestion at the various tolls considering how the coronavirus was spreading.
Speaking on Day Break Upper East on A1 Radio, Mr. Akolgo noted that, it will be difficult for Ghanaians to come to terms with the Minister’s comments stating that “I think we as Ghanaians it is going to be very difficult for us to come to terms with the Ministers on his view that those toll booths should be used as washrooms, so I think the minister said what he was not supposed to say. So I will not be here because I am member of the party to just say maybe what he said is right but I think he came out and said they were people suggestions, if we need washrooms they should be constructed at vantage points and not the middle of roads to me the Minister should come again’’.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Regional Communications Director of the opposition National Democratic Congress, (NDC) Sunday Casper Kampoli is of the opinion that, the Minister’s comments are crazy and also a lazy man thinking which could have been avoided, explaining that, the suspension of the roads tolls by the Minister was an affront to law but he was not prosecuted which according to Mr. Kampoli is because the government lacks the will power to prosecute its own.
Deputy Regional Communications Director of NDC, Sunday Casper Kampoli
He stated “the idea in the first place to go out there and close the tollbooth, what was the motivation behind it? What is the economic sense in it this road tolls we are told every month gives us ghc 6million in a year we get ghc 72million, this is a government that has its back on the floor this is a government with a cup in hand trying to pickpocket from Ghanaians in the name of E – levy”.
Adding that “listening to the roads Minister a few things came to mind, I think the idea is crazy, its sickening, its influence of lazy thinking and it also show how some of the Ministers and to some extent the government how tired they are and they are sleeping. They need to be whipped at the back to leave the governance stage”.
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