Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola has hinted that
the Federal government will be re-introducing tolls at Federal roads in
Nigeria. Fashola says the money generated from the tolls will be used
for the maintenance of the roads. 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 maintence. 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
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