{"id":3749,"date":"2024-03-07T20:35:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T20:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2024-03-07T20:35:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T20:35:53","slug":"asenso-boakye-calls-for-reintroduction-of-road-tolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3749","title":{"rendered":"Asenso-Boakye Calls For Reintroduction Of Road Tolls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Minister for Roads and Highways, Francis Asenso-Boakye, has called for the reintroduction of road tolls in a bid to mobilize adequate revenue to bridge the country\u2019s road infrastructural deficit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The collection of road tolls was discontinued in 2021 as part of policy measures announced by the government in the preceding year\u2019s budget statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to him, most developed countries finance their roads using money from road tolls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-5abac0b348fea7bfb2d730b0d0be994b ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lm5Lo2c07kE?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He stated that there is no serious country that does not toll its roads, and thus called for the reintroduction of the toll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many countries use the tolls they collect, the monies from road tolls to finance maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We need to bring back these road tolls so that we can get money to maintain our roads<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minister for Roads and Highways, Francis Asenso-Boakye is calling for the reintroduction of road tolls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Roads and Highways, Francis Asenso-Boakye, has called for the reintroduction of road tolls in a bid to mobilize adequate revenue to bridge the country\u2019s road infrastructural deficit. The collection of road tolls was discontinued in 2021 as part of policy measures announced by the government in the preceding year\u2019s budget statement. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,1265],"class_list":["post-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-asenso-boakye","tag-road-tolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3751,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions\/3751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}