Babatunde Fashola , Minister of Power, Works and Housing, has
hinted that the Federal government will be re-introducing tolls at Federal
roads in Nigeria. He said this during his first news conference tagged ‘Setting
the Agenda for Delivering Change’ in Abuja today December 8th...
“Maintenance would be our watchword. We are setting up a
robust maintenance regime to keep our highways in good shape. This shows that
tolling is necessary to support government funding. So, it will not be too much
if we ask every road user to pay little to augment government funding for road
maintenance. It is eminent commonsense for us to find that money.
We will use technology; so if we
don’t pay cash, you will pay by tokens or tickets and the money is accountable
and it will go to the right place. We will manage that fund properly and we
will hold those who we put there to account.” he said
NB: Nothing is wrong with that,
people in Europe and America do pay toll too. However, the government must make
sure that the money collected must be for road maintenance.
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