{"id":7308,"date":"2024-07-24T08:56:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T08:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=7308"},"modified":"2024-07-24T08:56:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T08:56:45","slug":"cabinet-has-approved-a-framework-for-road-toll-to-be-reintroduced-in-2025-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=7308","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet has approved a framework for road toll to be reintroduced in 2025 \u2013 Finance Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Government is looking forward to bring back the road toll after its cessation in 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Finance Minister, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam has disclosed that Cabinet has approved a framework established to facilitate the process of the reintroduction of the tolls in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Minister made this statement while presenting the mid-year budget review in Parliament on Tuesday, July 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia in June this year stated that road tolls must return to improve road infrastructure in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He indicated that the government currently lacks the necessary funding for infrastructure development and suggested that innovative solutions, such as road tolling, could offer a viable solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLet us go back to a system of broad-based road tolls. The tolling system has to come back, and I think it will come back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is a fundamental mistake of the government to place all road projects on the budget. The government doesn\u2019t have enough money and the private sector has to be brought in,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Government canceled road toll collections in 2021 after introducing the e-levy which government said was to substitute the road tolls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the e-levy has failed to live up to its promise prompting government to bring back the tolls in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government is looking forward to bring back the road toll after its cessation in 2021. The Finance Minister, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam has disclosed that Cabinet has approved a framework established to facilitate the process of the reintroduction of the tolls in 2025. The Minister made this statement while presenting the mid-year budget review in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,41],"tags":[2454],"class_list":["post-7308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-general-news","tag-cabinet-has-approved-a-framework-for-road-toll-to-be-reintroduced-in-2025-finance-minister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7308","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=7308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7310,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7308\/revisions\/7310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}