Nana Yaw Kesse is an award-winning broadcast journalist working with Despite Group Of Companies.
He stated that he has seen a post from Ato Aikins about an electronic and automatic tolling system in UAE.
All these things are happening in other countries because of a proper, comprehensive and integrated national database system.
Once all the pieces fall in place, you can’t register a car without a Ghana Card. Your number plate will be linked to your national ID and once you are captured via camera on a tolled road, a bill will be sent to you and you’d have to use the invoice code to settle your indebtedness.
These are all examples of things Bawumia speaks about but people can’t seem to understand. The Veep’s thinking is light years ahead of many Ghanaians.
A comprehensive national ID system is fundamental for any effective economic development. That is simply what he has been preaching but we can’t seem to wrap our heads around it.
Nana Yaw added that he knows people will wonder about enforcement.
When you get the bill, you will have a window within which you ought to pay. If you don’t, it will start accruing interest.
Just like that the Case in Spain, he shared in an earlier post, if you don’t pay, you will be unable to renew your vehicle registration or even your driver’s license until that bill is paid and cleared from the system.
Why is an e-toll important?
1. There will be no traffic SIMPLY because people have to slow down at toll booths to pay tolls.
2. As a result of point 1, there will be limited stress on those sections of the road.
3. Once there is limited stress, road maintenance costs caused by road stress will decrease. This means, saved revenue which can then be used for other infrastructure or other things.
4. An e-toll will also block leakages from road tolls, thereby increasing revenue that can be put into other sectors of the economy or even used to construct other roads.
