The removal of road tolls was never intended to have a socioeconomic impact on vendors who sell their wares at tollbooths across the country.
As authorized by the Minister of Roads, thirty-seven (37) toll booths will be closed, resulting in the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs that were dependent on the tolls’ operationalization.
The early signs aren’t promising for the majority of women who work at tollbooths. A couple of vendors at the new Beposo tollbooth on the Cape Coast-Takoradi route are wailing about the new order.
As a result of the directive’s implementation, their lives would be turned upside down. This woman, who claims to be a widow, says there is nothing she can do to assist her family given the scenario in their request for a reconsideration of the closing of these tollbooths.
She screamed for aid as she rolled around on the ground. She pleaded with the President to consider the directive’s socioeconomic impact on their life.
The tollbooth has been her family’s sole source of income, and given her circumstances, she could barely make it through the crowded market in the streets and other trading centers. Although regrettable, there is currently little that can be done to change the decision.
