alj_harem:

do you get 3 toll gates within a space of 20 kilometre abroad on a popular district ?

Why should lagos motorist pay tax when they are already taxed at work ? You care to answer

what greater good ?

what of the state generating more money from toll gates at the broader of the state rather than in the state ?

they have to start somewhere. . . . . . .
in no time, 3 toll plazas would reduce to 2 and eventually, 2 would reduce to one.
it's for the greater good. endure the pain now so your children would enjoy the benefits later.

toll the new lane? who would use a tolled lane when there's a free lane?
what a spastic idea!!!    

all these points are barking without biting.
your state government has asked you to pay. pay up or shut up.
lagos motorists don't pay road-tax, do they? and you are complaining?

at the border, you mean?
of what good is that one? the lagos toll-gate was eventually removed after it failed to serve it's purpose.
lekki/eti-osa environs represent the elite in lagos. it's probably the most congested strip in the whole of west africa.

let it serve as the 1st experiment, if it works there then toll plazas would spread across the state.

POTUT:

@coogar,

Okay, you are not in touch with reality. I clearly understand.

You are used to getting taxed and enjoying all those amenities you mentioned. Have you asked if Nigerians and Lagosians in particular who are also taxed (Lagos rakes in the highest PAYE in Nigeria) are enjoying those same amenities? They answer is 'no', they aren't enjoying those amenities. You see how out of touch you are? We all want to enjoy amenities here in Nigeria and get taxed, not get taxed and enjoy nothing.

There has never been a plan to reduce the number of toll plazas. Where are you conjuring that from? You are clearly not being real.

How is this spastic? What was the purpose of repaving 2 lanes and adding a third? Was it not to ease congestion? So why do you think some citizens wouldn't want to avoid congestion by getting on the tolled lane?

So anything government asks us to do is right and we must do it? Even when it can't stand reason?

Are you really in control of yourself? Or your runaway asylum mentality is?

coogar:

all these points are barking without biting.
your state government has asked you to pay. pay up or shut up.
lagos motorists don't pay road-tax, do they? and you are complaining?

djustice:

What kind of a half-wit is this one? Were so pa e ri ni? Do you not realise that the annual "vehicle licence fees" we pay in Nigeria amounts to a road tax? How many brain cells do you have left, having lost the rest to the Fashola and Tinubu fecal matter you keep sucking into that vacant skull of yours?

POTUT:

@coogar,

Again, how removed you are from reality? How does Lekki/Eti-Osa represent the elite in Lagos? You can only handpick Ikoyi, VGC, NICON/Chevron Employees Estate and Northern Foreshore (in which for every occupied property, there are at least 2 empty ones) as the residents of the elite. Contrast that with the hundreds of smaller estates populated by everyday lagosians in Ajah and beyond. I live in Ajah and I pay 500k p/a for a normal 3 bedroom apartment. I am not elite by those standards and you will find thousands of households like mine all over this place. We come out for monthly estate meetings so we know ourselves.

Update yourself, it will only cost you regular communication with anyone you left back here.

coogar:

lagos rakes in the highest PAYE in nigeria and they are also the most populated(always remember the population in your assessment). it's the single most important factor in lagos as the amenities and resources cannot cope with the 15 million population. the number of heads in lagos alone is more than the population of 3 west african countries put together. if you want improvement in the basic amenities - taxes have to be introduced.

back to the PAYE issue you mentioned. i don't see how the government can provide the amenities you so crave when the workers fleece the government with "ghost workers". in my opinion, it's the government paying taxes to these unscrupulous people who milk the government dry. who are the people creating ghost workers? every year, the government finds out there thousands of ghost workers collecting salaries for x number of years. do you know the implication of that?

between lagos and ibadan back in the days, there were 3 toll plazas. later it was reduced to 2.
is that reduction or increase?

they wouldn't want to avoid the congestion now because they would pay for it. nigerians don't like paying any extra especially when they know there's an alternative route free of charge. it won't worth their while to pay.
besides what happens on the day there's no congestion on the repaved 2 lanes? the tolled lane then becomes useless, won't it? then the purpose of setting a toll plaza would have been defeated.

can you now see how spastic the idea is?

you have not been doing it for 51 good years - see how the rebellion has turned nigeria to abu dhabi
nigeria: the best country to live on the whole planet.

irrelevant questions to the topic of discussion.

you have a duty to be responsible and forge a better future for the coming generation.
this is your chance to contribute your quota hence posterity would judge you.
you are where you are presently because the previous generation did nothing. don't follow suit!

djustice:

Won pe l'ole, oun gbe omo eran jo!

He who said you're not in touch with reality was spot-on. You're living in cloud-cuckoo land, and your logic is just, well, spastic, since you first used the word.

You really are a buffoon for defining our "contributing our quota" as paying our hard-earned money to your drug-addled, frog-eyed god. Instead of sitting in the negative equity heaven you're in now, why don't you come to Lekki and come and spew this rubbish to our faces. Oloriburuku.

djustice:

What kind of a half-wit is this one? Were so pa e ri ni? Do you not realise that the annual "vehicle licence fees" we pay in Nigeria amounts to a road tax? How many brain cells do you have left, having lost the rest to the Fashola and Tinubu fecal matter you keep sucking into that vacant skull of yours?

coogar:

you are a disgrace to the recipient of your y-chromosomes.
annual vehicle license fees is not road tax, you slowpoke! i see you need exposure, you homoerotic nuisance!
don't pay and get cuffed - you spastic donkey!

the residents of this area is where you would find 90% of the richest people in lagos.
of course, you guys should be paying more taxes!

get on with it and stop complaining.
if you cannot cope, relocate to another part in lagos.

Eko Ile:

Oponu aiyerada, vehicle license is a form of tax?,

How d.umb can you be ?

djustice:

I apologise to all half-wits everywhere. You're way worse than a half-wit. If the exposure you refer to is the type that makes you type the asinine crap you're posting up here as reasoned opinion, then you can keep it, thanks. Homo-Intimate is another word you've just learnt, abi? You keep that sh1t in your equity dead-end, and if your bastard boss doesn't cuff me when I don't pay, you come and do it yourself, you sodding special needs person.

We know your type. That envy with which you're looking at those of us living in Lekki is what will eventually kill you. We didn't get rich by being lazy spongers like you, looking to sponge off our wealth with the prison gates you've built. This rubbish you're typing here is just making matters worse. You're simply pissing us off, and you and your bosses don't want us properly pissed off, trust me.

When the wahala starts, we will not stop until we've kicked you all out of Lagos and recovered ALL the money and resources you've stolen from us. I used to pity Fashola. No more. He's now the enemy, and it's a fight to the finish. Awon were akotileta omo.

djustice:

Let me ask you this, you blithering eediort: Do you pay vehicle license fees annually in the UK, or Road Tax? Just because the nomenclature is different over here, you cannot wrap your mono-cellular brain around the fact that they are one and the same, just differently named?

Your ability to insult is quite quaint, actually. I've met tramps who can do better than you. From your language, you've really taken well to English climes. Don't worry, they'll soon wake up to the kind of beast of no nation you really are and kick you out of their country.

If you weren't so envious of Lekki residents, why would you want us to pay tolls and no other residents of Lagos, and come out with unintelligent statements, all drooling with saliva, like "Lekki is where 90% of the wealthiest Lagosians live, so they must pay tolls". The ones that live in VI and Ikoyi nko? They have two heads, abi?

Look, you this fuc-k-faced baboon, get on with your slave life, and leave us who you come and pick up at Heathrow in your illegal taxi to deal with matters above your station.

You think everyone here is like you, going to queue quietly for your salary at the end of the month? We're high rollers around here, and we pay our taxes. Big time. We just don't think it's fair that we should get nothing for our huge taxes and still get asked to pay for driving on a road that we already paid for. If you're that silly, we're not.

Your stupidity is sometimes amusing. The toll plaza is here in Lekki, you're telling us to go and do aluta at Alausa. What kind of people do you take us for? Let those who want to collect the tolls protest here in Lekki when we don't pay, because that's the worst they can do. They can't arrest anyone, or assault anyone, for asserting their right to freedom of movement, especially when such person is a taxpayer.

Nobody has bought their silly tags yet, and nobody will. No one, I repeat, no one, will pay any tolls on that road. Let them come and arrest every Lekki resident if they can. If they touch just one person, they will know that khaki and leather are not the same material. Tolls ko, kpos ni!

aribisala0:

In the United Kingdom owners are required to pay Vehicle Excise Duty, commonly known as "car tax", "vehicle tax" or "road tax", which is paid to the government for a vehicle licence, which must be displayed on most motor vehicles used on public roads.[7] Since 1937 there has been no direct relationship between the tax and government expenditure on public roads. The registered keeper of a vehicle that is not used or kept on public roads must complete a Statutory Off Road Notification (SORN).[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_licence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_tax

djustice:

Iragbiji-Ile, I see you've created the "coogar" handle for the purpose of this thread.

You, your bosses, your miserable multiple identities and your fellow minions of the bourdillon god will weep come sunday, if you lot go ahead and try to collect tolls on that road. You want to really test the will of the people? You sure about it?

You've been rigging elections since 1999, and nobody has contested them with you lot, but the end of apathy is what will come on Sunday.

Lagosians will want to know who Bola Ahmed Tinubu really is. Is he really Bola Ahmed Tinubu, or the bastard son of a housemaid, who stole the name of a prominent family in Lagos, after living off the streets of Ibadan for years, cutting a career for himself as a master forger of documents and an indian hemp dealer?

Is his name really Bola Ahmed Tinubu, or Yekini Amoda Ogunlere? Is he really a CPA, or did he just forge that certificate too, using the only special skill he really has?

Where was he between 1982 and 1989? Was he really studying as he claims, or was he in jail for dealing in narcotics in the United States?

Who really is the owner of ARM? Who funded the management buy-out (MBO) of that firm from its parent company, Guaranty Trust Bank?

Who is the real owner of Hitech Construction? Is it really only the Chaghoury brothers or do they have a partner in the entity known as Bola Ahmed Tinubu/Yekini Amoda Ogunlere?

Does Eko Hotel belong only to the Chaghourys only or is Bola Tinubu now a partner in that business too? What happened to the shares of Lagos State left in that hotel after Abacha sold some equity in it to the Chaghourys?

Who is the owner of the Golf Resort at Lekki Village in Ibeju-Lekki LGA? Is it Lagos State Government, or Bola Ahmed Tinubu, either directly or through proxies?

Who is the owner of Lekki-Epe Expressway Concession? Is it Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the same governor who signed an agreement with LCC, or is LCC not affiliated to Bola Ahmed Tinubu?

Why are there no alternative routes provided? Is it true that the Concession Agreement expressly forbids the provision of any alternative routes except by air into Lekki Peninsula for the next 30 years?

babestella:

It baffles me every time our leaders come out with phony projects in the name of improving our lives, I really wonder what kind of brains they have and where exactly the brains are located in their physiology. Does Lagos state govt think we can be fooled all the time,? does it think that Nigerians have not evolved? for Christ sake, enough is enough in the country. Our leaders have so messed up this country just because of greed. How can Lagos state govt build a road on lekki axis and toll it? What is the justification behind the dumb thinking? are there no good roads in VI, Ikoyi etc? Why Lekki. The problems of this our dear country are quite enormous and our leaders don't care, never. They get there and they think we are all fools. Imagine our dear president on one side, Fashola on one side, Peter Obi is doing his own on one side in Anambra, T. A. Orji has turned Abia state to a family bakery/winery, the list is endless, and here we are in Lagos, with all the double taxation. This state generated more income that any state in Nigeria most of which are illegal. They employ all manner of tact and tugs/hoodlums in suit to extort money from residents. Alh. Lateef Jakande did that road without asking for a dime, at his time, how many lagosians/Nigerians were paying their taxes? Yet he did it. Can you imagine how much Lagos generates every month from multinationals, banks, industries, poor market women, transports, okada riders etc plus federal allocation?

I see a lot of government house boys coming to NL to respond to comments; I sense that they are just want to show their oga that they are working, pls NL is not a place for you to do that. Let me tell all those who think that Lagos is doing the resident of lekki a favour, they are actually pulling a long string and without knowing what is actually attached to the end of the string. This is big fraud. Nigeria is not a country where debts are fully serviced, if we allow them, our children and their future generation will never finish paying. The Lekki Toll gates should be burnt down in this next protest, what are we waiting for, it is time we take action, if they want to kill us all, let them go ahead, it is because it is still there, that is why someone could sit in the comfort of his home to think that he has done lagosians a favor by building roads and tolling it. When Lasu/Iba road was completed, any toll there? NO, why, are we not all paying our taxes, as a matter of fact how many people who live on that axis pay their taxes, why toll on Lekki roads.

Lagos state does not belong to one man, no matter who you are or your status, you cannot be bigger than the people, we have seen live instances from Egypt, Libya, and currently Syria, Yemen, Pakistan. Our leaders need to have a rethink, if they cannot run this nation, let them resign. The worst is that when it is very glaring that our leaders have failed in their responsibility, that is when they sit tight, when they should have resigned honorably. But here, they develop "agidi spirit" I must rule by force, it must be by force. na me sabi pass all of una. It is such a shame, FYI (@ Coogar, I see you are a big disgrace to the generation of people who want changes in the way things are done in this nation. I sense you are just a dumb house boy to either Tinubu or Fashola, keep it up, your meal ticket will soon be doubled OK) Your thinking is myopic and laughable. I imagine if you ever know what it takes to pay tax and not get value.

See, this is why we cannot move forward, when 99% of intellectually sound citizens are saying something is wrong, then just one mad man who feeds of the crumbs that falls of his masters table says it is right, then there is problem. If you put him in government tomorrow, he will do worst than his master, probably put a stopper to the air we breath and ask all to pay tolls. The roads built with our taxes, we are again asked to pay for using it, no good water, no electricity. no security, no education for the poor, no job for our graduates because industries are not there to employ, few spaces are reserved for those who have connection. If our leaders are myopic in their sense of leadership and lack the will and capacity to take us to the next level, why can’t they leave us alone?. Is it by force? You don’t come on TV to show us that you are building roads for us, if you are not building roads, hospitals, schools, etc, then what are you doing in government, why are you there. It is the responsibility of government to provide infrastructure as far as taxes are being paid. Haba, please if we don’t know where we are going, we should know where we are or where we are coming from. Why is it that everyone wants to rule in Nigeria like it is his private or family property?

I tire, but I know that the end is in sight, we are not losing hope, when the time comes, we shall all rise and defend our rights legally or otherwise. As for GEJ, we are waiting for January. He came and told Nigerians I quote “I didn’t have shoes when he want to school” Right now, how many students has he provided with shoes and books, how many? Directly or indirectly, rather he is formulating more hardship on the parents so that by the time they buy fuel, pay tolls on highways, eat cassava bread, etc with their meager miserable 18K minimum wage, they all go home with polythene bags with which to pack their ragged clothing.

May God help us, give is the courage, strength and the will to fight this evil menace that has overtaken this Nation, that has driven this great nation into the dark hole.