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Seventeen private operators engaged by the government to collect rolls on some of the country�s roads and bridges, owe the Ghana Road Fund (GRF), GH�833,631.04 according to the Auditor-General�s Report on a special audit carried out on the tollbooths, between January 2008 and June 2010. The report said though the GRF had referred the matter to the Attorney-General�s office for prosecution no action has been taken on it yet. The road toll collection was privatized in 2005 but in 2008, the Road Fund Board phased out the role of private operators and handed over the collection to the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA) is September 2009. The report, as published on the website of the Ghana Audit Service, expressed worry that the inability to retrieve the moneys from the defaulters had deprived the GRF the needed resources to carry out its mandate of maintain the country�s road network. The report has, therefore, urged the GRF "to send a reminder to the A-G�s office seeking an update of the status of the legal action on the case.� It said all legitimate avenues should be explored to ensure that the amount is retrieved from these private operators� The defaulters are Oti Yeboah, Kumasi-Sunyani road, GH�142,760.56; Seidu Mahama, Kumasi-Mampong road, GH�106,650.00; Sedan Ventures, Accra-Tema motorway, GH�5,442.89; Kapplan, Sunyani-Dormaa GH�42,323.25; Tropic Oil, Kuamsi-Mampong, GH�27,200.00 and Lakayama Ltd, Kumasi-Sunyani, GH�14,532.45.