The Minority Chief Whip, Kwame Governs Agbodza has expressed that the Minority in Parliament won't uphold an expansion in the sum charged as road toll except if they are persuaded that the returns will be utilized for street related use.
He explained that monies gathered from the street cost can't be spent on different exercises like the development of the National Cathedral.
Talking on Delight FM's Popular narrative on Tuesday, that's what he expressed "Minority won't ever uphold the change assuming the Covering and Realignment Act is still on the road fund."
Mr. that's what agbodza expressed "In my view, except if we can demonstrate that anything we charge as street cost will completely to be utilized on street related consumption, the Minority won't uphold this. Since we can't pay cash for building roads and someone uses it for cathedral"
His remarks come against the background of Money Priest, Ken Ofori-Atta having proposed an augmentation in the sum paid as street cost.
This is important for the means being accepted by the public authority as it considers once again introducing the expense strategy.
As per Mr Agbodza, albeit the assortment of street cost isn't new in the country, the general population isn't enthused about what the assets produced are utilized for.
He added that the public question deteriorated when the public authority presented the Covering and Realignment Act in 2017.
This, he noted is on the grounds that street clients "feel that they pay a few measure of cash and that cash barely gets seen in working on the roads in this country."
"Essentially, in the 2023 Financial plan as may be obvious, the public authority is extending that for example, the street asset will create GHC2.4 billion however assuming that you go to the Supplement 3(c) - the use segment, you will see that they are simply going to spend around 1 billion cedis on roads.
"All in all, we utilize the name of streets to gather cash from general society and afterward we take most of that cash and spend it somewhere else," he called attention to.
The Positioning Part on Parliament's Street Panel additionally expressed that however he isn't against the renewed introduction of street cost, it should be finished through more extensive conference.
He added that the meeting will likely require a survey of a section of the Road Toll Act.