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Mozambique: Machatine wants toll revenue under “careful, rigorous and transparent” management – O País
8:46 CAT | 21 May 2021
Photo: Ministério das Obras Públicas, Habitação e Recursos Hídricos-MOPHRH
Mozambique requires about US800 million a year for maintenance and asphalting of the national road network. In order to raise this amount without having to resort either to credit or the state budget, the country has adopted the ‘user pays’ model – that is, tolling.
Minister João Machatine is now drawing attention to the importance of transparency in the management of the money collected at tolls, so that the desired results are achieved.
“It is not enough simply to collect these revenues. It is also important that the Road Fund has management models which meet the expectations generated by this new approach,” the minister of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources warns.
Management of toll money must be “judicious, rigorous and transparent”.
This, the minister explained, was why it had been decided to appoint Angelo Macuacua chairman of the Board of Directors of the Road Fund, ” a person of recognised competence to direct this institution, as a way of ensuring that the resources collected in the toll plazas are allocated only and exclusively for the maintenance of the roads”.
Minister Machatine is aware that it will take time for the money collected from the tolls to be sufficient to guarantee maintenance, hence the challenge for the Road Fund is to find solutions in the medium and long term. The intention is, essentially, “to find ways to anticipate future revenues in order to be able to respond to immediate needs”.
Source: O País
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