Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP), Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has kicked against the yet-to-be implemented road towing levy.
According to him, the Transport Ministry has not adequately considered the real preventive solutions but swiftly moving to another phase with the sole aim of surcharging and collecting monies whiles ignoring the very pertinent issues that cause accident in the country.
“Seriously, I hate this towing levy that government wants to impose on innocent citizens. I am totally against it. How can you tell me to go buy my vehicle and when it breaks down, instead of calling for it to be checked by the insurance company, you expect me to go get it towed with a levy. What kind of useless thinking is this?” he quizzed.
Following protests by the citizenry, the Government put on hold the implementation of the law that mandates vehicle owners to pay an annual mandatory towing levy.
Deputy Transport Minister, Daniel Nii Kwatei Titus-Glover, explained that the Ministry listened to the plights and cries of Ghanaians, which culminated into suspending the law.
Passed in 2012, the LI 2180 was given five years fallow period after which it would jump to life in 2017.
With two weeks to its implementation, the new regulation has been met with public disapproval.
Some have questioned the basis for which the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) awarded the contract to the Road Safety Management Limited (RSML), a subsidiary of the Jospong Group owned by Businessman, Joseph Siaw Agyapong.
Fees per year for both commercial and non-commercial vehicles, depending on tonnage, range from GHS20 to GHS200.
Speaking on Adom TV’s Morning Show 'Badwam' Tuesday, Ken Ohene Agyapong believes the existing road safety laws, if enforced, would lead to much safer roads for all than simply imposing a mandatory levy on all vehicle owners.
He stressed that it was high time the state accepted responsibility for failing to apply the needed resources in dealing with the actual causes of road accidents.
The outspoken MP who claims to have no knowledge about government’s plan further urged Ghanaians to object to what he describes as the lackadaisical attitude towards solving problems in this country
Source: Adom FM
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for me, i hundred percent support Ken, this is ai form of stealing from Ghanaian, no one should pay.posterity will judge all of u. ***barred word*** law
Massar, this one alone i dissagree with you, safety first, in advanced countries, it is the same, the passer byes drivers call in the towing company or police for you immediatly if you are obstructing traffic to cause accidents, you can afford to tow or call the mechanic immediatly, what about those long trailers with overloaded iron bars to Burkina-Faso and Niger, these vehicles would stop in the middle of the roads for days without warning signs ahbaah! the results are always accidents and accidents
Is it right for a broken vehicle to be left on the road for weeks and months before they are taken from the road? We should be realistic and know that most of the accidents that claim lifes are avoidable ans as a result of human error. One other thing is that when government properties are destroyed during an accident no one takes care for the fixing. I think that the insurance companies must be made to repair the damages before the cars are released to thier owners.
Re: Sit down demo. 9Are you sure of your facts? Ghanaians are disserning so don't think people are not aware of what is going on in the country. Go ahead & shop for a month & enjoy your sit down strike.
Someone's grand idea of making money. What happened to the taxi embossment? Smh.
ATTENTION TO ALL GHANA PEOPLE, CONCERN CITIZENS OF GHANA ALL OVER GHANA AND THE WORLD ARE TO EN BACK ON A ONE MONTH SIT DOWN DEMONSTRATION TO DEMAND THE $50 BILLION DOLLARS LOAN WHICH IS MISSING IN GHANA SINCE INDEPENDENT TO 2016., ALL WORKERS IN GHANA MUST TAKE PART IN THIS SIT DOWN DEMONSTRATION,/ STRIKE, WE THE PEOPLE OF GHANA CANT SIT DOWN FOR FEW EFULELFU, GREEDY BASTARDS, STEALERS, DEGENERATE, EFFEMINATE PEOPLE TO LOOT AND STEAL OUR MONIES AND MAKE LIFE BAD FOR 26 MILLION PEOPLE, NO WAY. ANY ONE WHO HAS TAKEN ONE CEDI OF THE PEOPLE MONIES MUST RETURN IT TO THE CONSOLIDATED FUND, TEACHERS,WORKERS, DOCTORS, TV PRESENTERS, RADIO PRESENTERS, TRADERS, WORKERS, THE DISABLES, LAWYERS, UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS MUST BE PART OF THIS DEMO,( NOTE, , ALL WORKERS MUST BUY FOOD AND STORE FOR ONE MONTH) A ONE MONTH DEMO CONTINUALLY FOR A NATIONAL AWARENESS, OPERATION ECONOMIC RIGHT HAS BEGAN AND WE WILL NOT RELENT UNLESS WE GET OUR MONIES BACK, FROM CONCERN PEOPLE OF GHANA, NOTE,.ALL PRESSURE GROUPS IN GHANA . THE T,U,C, AFAG, LET MY VOTE COUNT, ASSOCIATION FOR BETTER GHANA, EVERY GHANAIAN COUNT ,TRADE UNION CONGRESS, SCHOOL CHILDREN MUST BE PART OF THIS MONEY COLLECTING EXERCISE, , FOR THE PEOPLE OF GHANA ARE HUNGRY, STARVING, DESTITUTE AND DEHUMANIZED,