The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), Kofi Agyepong has said that the government plans to reassign former toll booth workers to the position of district disability officers within the agency throughout Ghana by the end of 2024.
Following the government’s November 2022 repeal of the toll system on public highways and bridges, at least 800 toll booth employees lost their jobs.
Since then, a year after losing their employment, the workers have accused the government of not fulfilling its pledge to provide them with a new source of income or to reassign them.
The employees said that from January 2022, the government has also neglected to provide them with the monthly payment that Minister of Roads and Highways Kwasi Amoako Atta had promised.
Speaking at the Business and Employment Assistance Programme (BEAP) inauguration in Sunyani on Monday, December 11, Agyepong stated that the former toll workers will be reassigned before the year’s conclusion.
“YEA district disability officers will be assigned to all former toll booth workers who were laid off after the government abolished all tolls on public roads and bridges by the end of this year,” he said.
