Towing levy is a lazy way to prevent accident - COPEC

Executive Secretary of the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC), says the controversial tow levy "is a confused approach to ending road bloodshed."

Duncan Amoah believes that road accidents are caused by many different factors that cannot be prevented only by law.

Speaking on PM Express, a current affairs programme on Joy News, Duncan Amoah echoed the widely-held view that existing laws if implemented, would be more effective at reducing road accidents.

The Roads and Transport committee in Parliament on July 31 announced a revised form of the levy for road users, which they argue among others will help prevent accidents on Ghana's roads caused by abandoned vehicles.

A section of the public is dismayed at the decision to impose between Ghc 20-Ghc 200 on vehicle owners and motorcyclists during the acquisition of a road worthy certificate, to cater for the cost of broken down vehicles towed from the country’s roads.

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However, the Executive Secretary of COPEC has described the decision as “the laziest approach ever adopted and this [levy] will not solve the road carnage issue.”

He added that there was no broad and extensive stakeholder consultation before it was passed and as such it's a deliberate policy to enrich a few people at the expense of all other road users.

Duncan Amoah called on the government to consider the numerous levies paid by vehicle owners and commercial drivers and heed to calls to scrap the tow levy.

 

primenewsghana.com/Ghana News