President John Mahama on Monday gave a hint of the modality for the reintroduction of road tolls as contained in the 2025 Economic Policy and Budget Statement of the Government.
He said the Government was considering digitizing the roads toll booths, and that the Ghana cards of car owners would be linked to the cars; so that whenever the vehicle passes through a road toll booth, its picture would be taken and a bill of GH¢1.00 would be sent to the car owner’s mobile money account or his bank account for the payment.
The President disclosed this in his address at the 2025 Ghana CEOs’ Summit in Accra.
He said there had been ongoing discussions on what the modality should be for the collection, saying, “But a good thing today is every car is linked to the owner’s Ghana card. And so, we don’t need to have the old toll gates and those carts that you stand and open and all that. We’ll just go straight, digitalised.”
“If it’s one cedi, one cedi. If you cross the East Lagon Bridge, the Governor and Finance Minister will all be happy. We’ll just take a picture of your car. And then we’ll take the bill to your mobile money or your bank account and just pay one city, only one cedi.”
The 2025 Ghana CEOs’ Summit is on the theme “Leading Ghana’s Economic Reset: Transforming Business and Governance for a Sustainable Futuristic Economy- A Private-Public Sector CEO Dialogue & High-Impact Learning.”
President Mahama described the Summit as an event that had over the years become the foremost platform for strategic thinking, together with the nation’s most influential economic actors.
He said the theme for the Summit could not have been more appropriate and that it challenges them to examine where they had come from, acknowledge where they had faltered, or define where they must go as a nation.
Ernest De-Graft Egyir, Founder/CEO of Ghana CEOs’ Summit, reiterated the key role the Summit had been playing in shaping Ghana’s economic future.
He lauded President Mahama for being a regular guest speaker at the Summit.
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