Toll gates are coming – Fashola

The Federal Government has announced that it had concluded plans to re-introduce tolls on major highways across the country. Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), while appearing before the Senate Committee on Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, said 38 points had been identified in the first phase of the re-introduction.

“Clearly, tolling is coming,” the minister told the lawmakers. While saying that the new toll gates would be situated at the old spots, Fashola stated that tolls would be collected after the roads had been made motorable.

He said, “We are not going to ask road users to pay toll on a road that is not good. While the construction (of gates) is going on, we are working on the design. We want to standardise the design so that people when we ask people to come and bid for the construction, we can control what they are going to construct."

UCJ, UNILORIN.