DMerciful:
You that is smart, can you tell me why current fg roads and bridges are not tolled? Can you tell me why they're starting tolling with SE?

Ishilove:
Rugaria, please edit your title from

The Evil Tole Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge

To

The Evil Toll Gates At Onitsha Second Niger Bridge

issum:
it is not Onitsha Second Niger Bridge it is called Muhammadu Buhari Bridge.

buckeyemedia:
money generated from the toll will pay back the loan,

ednut1:
The other bridge is still open. If you cant afford the toll follow the other one na. There are tolls in other countries too.

AbijaJ:


No mind them. The newly built Federal multi-lane highway in Ogun state (when you enter from Epe) also has Toll gates o, nobody fight am because it's part of the provision put in place to ensure that the road is well maintained in future. Nigerians want world class infrastructure but don't want to pay for it.

dejol88:

Why are they not concessioning other roads in Nigeria? Why used tax payers money to fund road construction in other regions and come to south east to play this card of concession?

Are you not here when FG release data tha south east is the poorest in southern Nigeria?

Why further put burden on the poorest people?

Rugaria:
No nation built on nepotism and sectionalism archives her full potential. Infact most promising states around the globe have imploded in the past, under the enermous weight of their iniquitous history full of tribalism, favouritism and grand injustices. This is so, because for the people of any given country to come together and galvanize their collective abilities towards modernizing their state, there must exist a sense of nationalism, patriotism and a common purpose. This can't happen when it has become a government policy to marginalize, antagonize and deprive a certain section that contributes immensely towards the economic growth of the country, her fare share of national projects and recognitions..

A case in point here is the over dramatized Second Niger bridge. In the history of this eternally convulsing amalgam, no project has been so dramatized, so politicized and so unashamedly utilized as a political football by the close minded political class in Abuja, at the detriment of the welfare and greater economic activities in the South East and the South South regions. The drama started way back during the military era, when the aging bridge built by the then Eastern government in the 50s, started to show signs of wear and tear. This bridge was bombed during the Nigeria - Biafra war and was extensively damaged as a result of the endless skirmishes there. For a long time, the bridge has been the only shaky link between the former Eastern Nigeria and the rest of the country. With the economic activities going on in such wonderful places like Onitsha, Aba, Port Harcourt, Owerri and the rest, the enermous economic importance/impact of this bridge can not be over emphasized..

It's against this backdrop, that one is overwhelmingly alarmed at the disdain with which the federal government has carried on with this project over the years. Firstly, under Babangidas administration, a drawing of the bridge was made with plans for a rail crossing. But nothing happened as it rgards construction proper. Obasanjo came in and only laid the foundation stones few hours to his abdication of office in 2007, which was basically nothing but a taunt" to those who considered the bridge an essential project to them! The plan for the rail lines over the bridge was also shelved. Jonathan did start the project but suggested a partnership between the construction companies, the state government and the federal government as it regards the funding. Then came Buhari, whose administration saw the second Niger bridge as the most convenient project to use as a balancing act for his brazen but shameful display of bigotry and classic igbophobia.

The bridge will now have almost a dozen Toll Gates!! This will be the first and only project built under any administration since the coming of civilian rule in 1999, that will demand that those using it will pay for all bills incurred during construction! Ofcourse, it's mainly the people of the South East. There are many projects in the North being handled as we speak, by the federal government that have bigger cost outlays when compared to the second Niger bridge but whose total cost are shouldered entirely by the federal government, even if it means borrowing! A good example is the nearly One trillion Naira Abuja - Zaria - Kano road. Infact, Nigeria has gone on to borrow billions of dollars to erect highways and railways and pipelines to Niger republic, another country! Nigerians as a people will collectively pay for these projects in another country, while the South Easterners, who are going to be the main users of The second Niger bridge, will pay through their noses for EVERY cent used to build that bridge!

"Fellow Nigerians", Is this fair??


Below is The Muhammadu Buhari Toll gates at the yet to be commissioned second Niger bridge:

Parachoko:
I've never seen where a railway iss tolled before o

Everlastingson:



Childish and hate- propelled rant.

AirFireEarthH20:
I never knew there will be toll gate at the much dramatized bridge. Nigerian government collected loans to build rail to Niger Republic, a less important economic route, for free but these loans would be repaid by Nigeria. While the bridge that will connect those of us from Niger Delta and the Igbo people is going to be tolled? That toll gate will be burnt down... anytime they put it back again, it will be burnt again again. Useless people! I no blame Igbo people sha, na those of us in the Niger Delta wey no get sense. Smh

aribisala0:
The only FG tollgates that we have ever known have been in the SW . In the 80s till Obasanjo ended it.

At that time there was PH to Enugu Road which was not tolled in fact no other roads were tolled .

No one played victim

The FG has immediate plans to toll 12 roads .That has been shared on this thread so clearly you are being mischievous

BabalawoPikin:
Till then bruh.. The hate people got for igbos will calm when our darling BAT shows up.. Tinubu is comingm. Baba sharp sharp. Not that slowpoke in aso rock. Jagaban no be anybody mate

Igboid:


Stop talking nonsense.
There was a tollgate in PH-Enugu express road until OBJ ended it as well.
You people will stay in your zone and be talking what you don't know.

ednut1:
The other bridge is still open. If you cant afford the toll follow the other one na. There are tolls in other countries too.

Grgton:
Speechless

What about people traveling outbound (onitsha to Asaba) ?? It's free

And people coming inbound (Asaba to onitsha) will pay for toll??

Massive bills for millions people traveling from Lagos (SW) to SE, SS especially during festive seasons

OnyeObodo:


Why is Lagos-Ibadan expressway not tolled?

Why is Abuja-Kano not tolled?

You see why you people are very WICKED THINGS?

aribisala0:
Lol
Really

Do not make assumptions
Did you ever drive on that Road ? The fact that you call it PH _Enugu suggests that you never did and likely read about it

Okay Tell us


How many Toll gates were on the Road and where were they located . Which state?

buckeyemedia:
Don’t mind that bush minded illiterate, go & be traveling on the Federal expressways for free, Nonsense.

And the irony is that the Mumu no even get motor.

buckeyemedia:
The world has changed from the times of your father, PPP is the way forward, the FG is in line with the 21st century.

buckeyemedia:
Shameless Perennial Constitutional Wailers.

buckeyemedia:
Only a foolish Government will build such a highway & not Toll it, Why are you showing your ignorance, who said they are using tax payers money to build the roads, ie, is SUKUK fund tax payers money?

It is all about Build, Use & Return.

Are you not the same people that said you don’t need loans from Islamic financial Institutions?

buckeyemedia:
Zombie don’t try & change the narrative, is SUKUK tax payers money? money generated from the toll will pay back the loan, Use your bird change to feed yourself, the Federal Government doesn’t need your grains.

buckeyemedia:
They were tolled pre 1999 until Obasanjo decided to remove it, a case of throwing away the baby with the bath water, 20 years after, it has resurfaced again, you cannot runaway from yourself.

buckeyemedia:
Wailer, even if they had started it from the North you would have still claimed preferential treatment that Buhari is starting from his people.

Why are they the North been tolled first, since more commerce is down south? damned if you do, damned if you don’t.