The federal government of Nigeria has revealed plans to reintroduce the popular toll gates along selected major highways and bridges including the Lagos-Ibadan expressway and the new bridge across River Niger at Asaba-Apakun.

Nigeria's Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen, revealed this yesterday while speaking in Abuja at a forum on roads and bridges. He said the policy would enable government to grow the economy, bring services to the communities and ensure safety of road-users.

“Currently, the Federal Government does not have enough resources to keep the roads and bridges on good state at all the times, as a result, it is attracting additional investment by increasing the role of the private sector in the design, construction, management, maintenance and upgrading of the federal roads and bridges network through Public-Private Partnership (PPPs). Toll revenue will make it possible,” he noted.

It would be recalled that most of the federal roads across the country were in the past subjected to tolling, which were at the time collected by the authorities of the then Federal Ministry of Works and Housing. Unfortunately, the same tollgates were later dismantled by former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo-led civilian administration following reported cases of massive corruption in the system.

The minister also stated that government is now trying to correct this past mistake, hence it has begun series of consultations, including the stakeholders’ forum. He said after the wider society has submitted its reports on the workability of the policy, government will come up with a final document, which shall be sent to the Federal Executive Council for approval and the President will assent to it.

According to the minister, when the policy is fully operational, key benefits of the tolling policy will include, improving the quality and safety of Nigerians, as there will be thousands of kilometers of world-class roads added to the road network, encouraging international best practices coupled with affordability for road-users and provision of incentives for further private investments.

He said that concessionaires will change the tolls and they will be responsible for the building and maintenance of the roads, even as government will give preference to tolling by established, experienced and reputable private firms.

On when the concessionaire will start charging toll, the minister stressed that it may only be levied once a road is completed and integrated with the road network.

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pumpingmachine:

“Currently, the Federal Government does not have enough resources to keep the roads and bridges on good state at all the times, as a result, it is attracting additional investment by increasing the role of the private sector in the design, construction, management, maintenance and upgrading of the federal roads and bridges network through Public-Private Partnership (PPPs). Toll revenue will make it possible,” he noted.

RUBBISH

Which Niger bridge are they tolling? The 30 year old imaginary and proposed one or the one that's falling apart today? lmao

They are yet to get their 30 year old bridge and the yeye one on the ground is due for tolling? CHEI!!! Talk about double jeopardy...


Tinubu bad gan sha? All the tolling money is going inside Tinubu's pocket..

agbameta: Which Niger bridge are they tolling? The 30 year old imaginary and proposed one or the one that's falling apart today? lmao

They are yet to get their 30 year old bridge and the yeye one on the ground is due for tolling? CHEI!!! Talk about double jeopardy...


Tinubu bad gan sha? All the tolling money is going inside Tinubu's pocket..

Maybe because FG is now involved..some people will come to understand that tolling aren't exactly a bad idea they've come to believed because LASG was involved.

They want to toll Niger bridge which they are yet to build?? So they concessioned the bridge to a private firm that will build and then charge whatever it desires to ensure it pays back the cost of building the bridge?

I think the best way to go is for Nigeria to go back to regions and let the regions build all their roads and do whatever they want with it. It makes no sense for the FG to be building roads and collecting tolls that have always been stolen, the roads will never be maintained anyway!

Ok

Insincere Nigerian have you told them this policy is anti poor or is Tinubu/APC now running the FG?

A-ZeD:
Insincere Nigerian have you told them this policy is anti poor or is Tinubu/APC now running the FG?

Where is that chap sef? He has been consistently Inconsistent on this forum lately

Hope he hasn't been slammed with a ban?

agbameta: Which Niger bridge are they tolling? The 30 year old imaginary and proposed one or the one that's falling apart today? lmao

They are yet to get their 30 year old bridge and the yeye one on the ground is due for tolling? CHEI!!! Talk about double jeopardy...

Tinubu bad gan sha? All the tolling money is going inside Tinubu's pocket..

ilungunboy: Maybe because FG is now involved..some people will come to understand that tolling aren't exactly a bad idea they've come to believed because LASG was involved.

CLOWNS Read:

pumpingmachines:
He said that concessionaires will change the tolls and they will be responsible for the building and maintenance of the roads, even as government will give preference to tolling by established, experienced and reputable private firms.

On when the concessionaire will start charging toll, the minister stressed that it may only be levied once a road is completed and integrated with the road network.

Unlike what the THIEF, Tinubu and his cohorts, did with that fraud called 'Lekki-Epe Concession', a Concession would not be allowed to start collecting tolls on a road until the the said road is completed.

The FG is certainly not 'learning' from the THIEVES in Lag, K?? It is following laid-down World Standards