Former Upper East Regional president of the Ghana Federation of Disability Organizations (GFD), David Aniah says all Persons With Disabilities (PWDs), who lost their jobs following the abolition of road tolls, have been reemployed.
According to him, although some have gotten jobs in the private sector, most of them have been reengaged by government.
In November 2021, the Road Ministry announced the abolition of road tolls, rendering PWDs, who made up 50 percent of tollbooth attendants, jobless.
Government had assured of reemploying them following the abolition.
But more than a year after their displacement, not only were not reengaged but their salary arrears were also not settled.
Some of them, in November last year, picketed at the Ministry of Roads, demanding payment of the arrears but were arrested over accusation of unlawful assembly.
Speaking on the state of the displaced PWD tollbooth attendants, David Aniah said, “As we speak, all the tollbooth workers who were displaced have been successfully engaged by the National Youth Authority. They were quite a number of them in the Upper East Region”.
