This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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Prices of consumer goods are continuing towards their usual trend of touching the heights but this year there’s one thing for sure that there will be no increase in the toll rates. The government is planning to take the over the cost instead of transferring it to the consumers and thus will cost them RM 400 million of public funds.
‘We have decided that in order not to further burden the people, the government will compensate the companies. Toll will still have to be paid but users will not be paying new rates,’ said the Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin while explaining the concessionaires. He said that it was the government’s way of tackling the rising price of living. DAP accuses Putrajaya of a public stunt to attract voters before the Kajang by-election. According to DAP it’s a political tactic to please voters before next month elections.
‘The BN government has only changed the music but not the words by freezing highway toll hikes for one year by paying RM400 million in compensation to highway concessionaires,’ said the Secretary-general Lim Guan Eng in a statement today. ‘This is not a solution when the RM400 million compensation will ultimately be paid by the public. Why should a few toll concessionaires benefit at the expense of 28 million ordinary Malaysians?’ He further added that the highway concessionaires will not lose out on anything as they will be still receiving their profit from Putrajaya.
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