Toll gate, Lagos
The Federal Government on Wednesday said that plans were at the advanced stage to return toll gate on the federal highways.
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola disclosed this
while briefing State House Correspondents after the Federal Executive
Council, FEC, meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the
Council Chamber, Presidential Villa Abuja.
Fashola, flanked by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji
Lai Mohammed said there was no law that stopped the government from
having toll gate on federal roads.
He said, “There is no reason why we can’t toll, there was a
policy of government to abolish tolls or as it where, dismantle toll
plaza but there is no law that prohibit tolling in Nigeria today. We
expect to return toll plazas, We have concluded their designs of what
they will look like, what materials they will be rebuilt with, what new
considerations must go into them.
“What we are looking at now and trying to conclude is how the bank end runs.”
He said that government was also considering to eliminate payment of cash by introducing electronic mode of payment.
The Minister further disclosed that government needed to acquire
more lands to expand the width of the toll gates as it proposed to have a
ten lane.