Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako Atta, has assured former toll collectors whose salaries are outstanding that all arrears will be paid in a week.
About 190 collectors, mostly persons living with disabilities, were engaged by a private contractor, Tolls & Routes Management Limited, TRML, before the closure of the toll booths.
The aggrieved toll collectors thronged the premises of the Ministry to demand their salaries. They claimed they had been home since November, 17, 2021, without salaries.
Head of Public Affairs at the Ministry of Roads and Highways, Nasir Ahmed Yartey, after a meeting with the toll collectors, told journalists that the Minister had assured them they would be paid within a week after meetings with their employer, Tolls & Routes Management Limited.
He said the Minister gave them the highest assurance of the Government that they will engage their employers to make sure they receive their salaries within a week.
”The Ministry would ensure that all physically challenged toll collectors would continue to receive salaries until they were reassigned”.
Meanwhile, all toll collectors engaged by the Ministry have been paid all salaries and allowances.
There were 744 toll booth workers across the country with TRML employing 530 out of which 190 are physically challenged. The Roads and Highways Ministry engaged 214 with 92 being physically challenged.
The Ministry says it is reviewing a proposal on how to re-engage the dismissed toll collectors.