Toll Workers Express Disappointment Over Government’s Failure to Re-engage

Former toll workers are voicing their frustration with the government for not honoring promises made three years ago following the cessation of road toll collection.

On November 17, 2021, the government abruptly ended toll collection after presenting the 2022 Budget Statement, resulting in the loss of jobs for approximately 800 workers.

At that time, then-Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta and Roads and Highways Minister Kwasi Amoako-Atta assured the workers that they would be reassigned to alternative positions and receive monthly allowances until then.

However, three years later, the former workers report that none of these commitments have been fulfilled, leaving them feeling hopeless.

Edward Duncan, General Secretary of the Ghana Toll Workers Union, expressed the group’s disappointment with the government’s inaction. “The government has let us down. It has been three long years without any fulfillment of their promises—specifically, finding us alternate livelihoods and providing monthly allowances until that happens,” he said.

Duncan also refuted claims circulating in the media that the workers had been compensated or settled. “Contrary to what government officials and party loyalists have suggested, we have not received any payments,” he asserted.