Metro Fashola: FG Set to Re-introduce Toll Gates on Highways

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The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, says the Federal Government would re-introduce highway tolling to raise additional funds to finance road infrastructure and ensure efficient road maintenance.

Fashola said this on Tuesday in Abuja during his first news conference tagged “Setting the Agenda for Delivering Change”.

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He said that adequate funding of the nation’s road infrastructure would generate job opportunities and reduce unemployment in the country with the following quotes:

"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.2

“We will manage that fund properly and we will hold those who we put there to account.”


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