Resurgent2016:


Every picture there is of the tolled road. No inner roads were captured and trust me, those one are in worse condition

One has to be careful Sir, Mushin is not where you take photos anyhow, for even taking these ones are miracle

The toll gate was constructed around 2000/2001 we were told it was concession for 30years. It was during the tenure of Ganiu Olanrewaju Solomon (aka GOS) as Chairman of Mushin Local Government. There is no need to pay for damages as the whole stretch of Kayode Stree, Ogunmokun Street had been paid for around 1967 by the then Federal Government for a link bridge to Somolu for easy access to LUTH.

Ugosample:

they are using the money to flex in London

Chai.. inside life

That's my hood

hmmm

AutoReportNG:
If you are a regular road user of the Mushin, Fadeyi, Onipanu area, there is no way that you won't pass through the Mushin toll gate. The Mushin toll gate links Mushin and Ogunmokun Street junction. The Mushin toll gate has been there for ages, in fact as long as residents can remember. The Mushin Toll Gate collects money from commercial buses, private car owners even to bikes and Keke NAPEP plying this route, they charge from 50 naira upwards depending on your category of cars or vehicles.

While it is not a crime or a sin to collect toll fares in as such as people see what you use the funds to do by making sure the road is up to standard and you use the toll fees to develop the roads which they are paying.

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One of our readers sent in this post detailing the activities of the Mushin Toll Gate and why those in charge of it only collect money from road users and refuse to maintain and develop the road. The question now is, where are these monies going to? Who are those in charge and lots more.

Read his submission below...

What comes to the mind of an average Lagosian when the concept of a toll gate is mentioned? Most Lagosians will most likely think about the Lekki and Ikoyi toll gates. These tollgates were introduced by the past administration of Babatunde Fashola as a solution to providing funding for the construction and maintenance of major roads in the city.

However, this development proved quite unpopular in some quarters, leading to high profile protests that claimed the life of one protester and possibly informed the decision of the state government acquiring the concessionaire (Lekki Concession Company) in 2014.

However, there is a lesser-known toll gate situated at the gateway of Mushin Local Government Area. The toll gate is situated between Kayode Street in the Onipan area of Lagos and Ogunmokun Street in the Mushin area of Lagos.

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Mushin toll gates operate much in the same way as its more popular cousins, with attendants backed by armed policed men demanding that motorist pay the prescribed toll fare before passage through the gate. It, however, stands apart from its more popular cousin as it is situated on a road that could well compete as one of Lagos bad roads. The road is riddled with deep portholes, silt, and dirt, creating a non-recreational off-road driving experience for motorists plying the road.

If some users of the Lekki-Epe Expressway found it difficult to understand why the state government had to toll the road to an area that possibly generates billions in monthly tax revenues to fund the repair and maintain it, it is lost to most users of Mushin roads as to why Government will toll a road to a major economic hub without any meaningful effort to repair it over the years.

Perhaps, it’s high time the State and Local Government clarify the justification for the toll gate at Mushin. God bless Lagos State.

See the state of the roads around this area...

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Source:
https://www.autoreportng.com/2019/09/the-irony-of-lagos-lesser-known-toll.html

Do you know there are over three toll gates(popularly called "pako bridge" on Igando road? one at idowu egba bus stop, another at odo bus stop opposite power line bus stop and another at hotel bus stop...I heard there are many more on that road, search your beam light there, these toll gates have been existing for years...don't know if the money goes into private pockets or to the state government.

Badmod:
So na this less than 5 KM road them dey Toll.... we've lost it oo...
This doesn't even looks like a state government project,more like a local government road...
If I complain about APC now,some dumb ass Zombies will tell me to leave Lagos...
Sometimes I wonder why they assume anybody that criticizes this abula type of Government is not a Yoruba man...
What's Bad is bad...
Even Lekki sef get alternative road,that you can pass without paying...

That toll gate was actually built by Mushin local government and not a state government project.Senator Ganiu Solomon was the chairman as at that time and that toll gate is over 15 years now

That toll isn’t government owned it was built by Alain Sheniyan aka Bertola one time house of rep member his son is currently in Lagos state house of rep too representing Lagos mainland constituency. He owns the money made from that toll!!! It’s a dysfunctional system.

so happy with this post any time i go through that toll i just keep asking " Do we still have government in Lagos state " how can you have toll gate on a road meant to ease traffic as an alternative with a lot of potholes.They just collect money there to enrich some bastards .Do you know what 50 naira and 10 naira per every seconds amount to in a day? If the state government really loves lagosians, stoping such useless toll is a start.