The Ranking Member on Roads and Highways, Governs Kwame Agbozda, says the sector Minister, Kwasi Amoako Atta, has no authority to convert empty tollbooths into washrooms.
He said the location of the tollbooths will not even permit one to convert such facilities into washrooms for drivers.
Mr. Agbogba was responding to a statement by the Roads Minister on various media platforms that the vacant tollbooths were going to be converted into washrooms for drivers. .
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The Minister announced government’s decision to refurbish all tollbooth structures to provide proper and decent washrooms for the use by motorists.
This was after pressure was mounted on him to remove the tollbooths since they were not in use.
Speaking to the media, Kwasi Amoako-Attah stated that the use of toll booths will deter motorists from urinating indiscriminately on the high ways.
“We even want to refurbish all tollbooth structures to provide proper and decent washrooms for the use by motorists so that we advised them to desist from that practice where sometimes you see cars stopping on the highway and people getting down to wee-wee as we usually see,”,he told media men.
Kwasi Amoako Atta rebutting the claims made by Mr Agbozda, emphatically stated that, the Ranking Member is talking out of ignorance and quoting him out of context.
The Roads Minister explained that, his statement had been taken out of context adding that, “it was just a passing comment”.
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