₦airaland Forum

frisky2good:
Since you are not sure how did you come up with a stupid calculation? If you want to learn you have to be humble. Your arrogance only confirms your stu.pidity. Go back to your APC school of propaganda. I'm not educated but I know OBJ regime subsidised fuel price but you the educated one doesn't know. Guess what, whoever paid for your education wasted precious money that would have been more useful if spent on beer.

adeyemi2015:
We shouldn't play politics with every national issue pls! Re-introduction of Tolls should be a welcome idea!
The most important thing is; ensuring the proper management of funds generated through the Tolls as well as timely maintenance of the Country's Highways!

OreMI22:
[size=14pt]Toll gates collected by government are simply adding extra layers of corruption to the already massive problem of government bureaucratic corruption.

our roads need to be concession-ed out and tolled, NOT BY GOVERNMENT, but by companies charged directly with maintaining them.

The role of government is simply to supervise that the companies responsible for the roads are repairing those roads as they said they will.

Government will collect tolls, pay some into their account and use the rest for staff salaries. then when the roads breakdown, there are no funds to fix them because the collected toll has already been spent on frivolities.[/size]

baby124:
Well every sane country has tolls. It will also limit the criminals that travel from place to place to rob for Christmas. When they think about the fare, they will go and find better work. Plus where is the money for taking care of the roads or building? Every state should have toll. Though the toll should not be an outrageous amount and there should be alternative route. I also think the road networks should be reviewed. For a country like Nigeria, going by road shouldn't take as long as it does. I don't think we are using a good or efficient road network as of now.

lookandlaff:
If you are so sure there was subsidy then state exactly the subsidy figure or at the very least provide evidence of a subsidy regime during that period instead of dancing ariund the issue in the typical moronic manner. I said to the best of my knowledge there was no subsidy "correct me if I am wrong" because I was never aware of any subsidy, I am only replying for the sake of other members as you are obviously a nit wit and I will not engage you any further unless you provide evidence of the subsidy

Fawklicant:
I know you are negotiating a different point, but what I'm saying is this. This proposal has all the trappings of the lekki scenario. This is even worse, as they want to toll already built roads. Probably gonna concesion the maintenance to someone who'd do a wish-washy job of resurfacing the roads and then mount their tolls. Please what are they doing with our taxes?

This is akin to asking us to pay electricity tax while they build the dam that would supply the electricity someday.

Fawklicant:
Brother, you dont have to go gutter like he is doing. Just school him and move on.

Meanwhile, fuel subsidy dates back to 1992 during IBB's regime. He introduced it in April 1992.

http://www.themaceonline.com/house-of-reps-news/241-fuel-subsidy-removal-the-challenge-before-house-committee-on-petroleum-downstream

Ecoplexus:
Sai Bo(o)hari
Sai Shange

Fawklicant:
There's hardly anywhere in tne world I know where govt concessons roads it already built to a private entity. What they do is they ask you to build entirely new roads with shorter routes or new roads linking new communities and then you toll only after you have completed the construction. When our govt imports foreign ideas, they tend to twist it to serve themselves, because the average Nigerian hardly knows better.

lookandlaff:
Unlike many I am not a fan if fashola and Tinubu but if you want good roads we will have to pay one way or another. Unfortunately this is the environment we live in. I am sick and tired of false hope and promises meanwhile my life ticks along and I ask myself what kind of life is this? i will pay the extra for constant electricity, I will pay the extra for good roads, just get it done so the quality of my life improves. Because guess what we can moan about what govt should do, they don't ply these roads, they don't suffer power outages, they don't send their kids to substandard schools, they don't send their family to govt hospitals. If you are waiting for them to deliver without paying extra what they couldn't deliver when Oil was over $100, now that Oil is $40, history has shown nothing will happen and we will continue to live a life of rats!!!


Just get it done, I don't care how, the good thing about a good road is once it's built, it's built!!!

adconline:
Onus is on govt to build new roads before imposing tolls. Do you pay house rent before a house is built? Why do we make silly excuses for govt? Same reason when people protested when GEJ wanted to charge full price on fuel before fixing refineries. We keep choosing easy routes in life and we haven't gotten anywhere!!

lookandlaff:
If you are so sure there was subsidy then state exactly the subsidy figure or at the very least provide evidence of a subsidy regime during that period instead of dancing ariund the issue in the typical moronic manner. I said to the best of my knowledge there was no subsidy "correct me if I am wrong" because I was never aware of any subsidy, I am only replying for the sake of other members as you are obviously a nit wit and I will not engage you any further unless you provide evidence of the subsidy

Fawklicant:
There's hardly anywhere in tne world I know where govt concessons roads it already built to a private entity. What they do is they ask you to build entirely new roads with shorter routes or new roads linking new communities and then you toll only after you have completed the construction. When our govt imports foreign ideas, they tend to twist it to serve themselves, because the average Nigerian hardly knows better.

OreMI22:
Bro stop lying.
In the USA, many roads and bridges built by government use private companies to collect toll NOT government employees!

I have also never heard that interstate highways in USA were built by private billionaires and tolled. Stop lying and making things up as if every Nigerian is uninformed like you.

adeyemi2015:
This development is affecting Nigeria as a Whole not Lagos State! Besides he's not the President rather PMB, every decision he's gonna made must be ratified at the FEC!

kelvincoll:
This part caught ma interest. Standardization is key to infrastructural development. When i see d width of some so called federal roads cutting across state i smh as it seems like a bypass built by a local govt chairman. The road linking abia n akwa ibom comes comws to mind.

asuustrike2009:
The miracle working Fashola did same thing in Lagos and the rest is a story. You talk as if you are not in Nigeria where politicians keep deceiving people with policies that are not idealistic. First and foremost, the roads should be in good shape before imposing road tax on it's citizens. This is not Uk where they solely depend on tax to survive moreover their government had already make such amenity before it implemented it. That Fashola provided 24/7 electricity to selected project isn't a yardstick for him to wake up from his slumber an impose road tax or even think of it. Do you know the effect of such policies that will cost Nigerians? Common subsidy removal that the previous administration did, 80% of Nigerians wailed up to a point that the price of things went up. You think road transport owners wouldn't inflate their price thereby causing inflation? Or you think market men and women wouldn't add hike on transport to what they purchased?.
A government doesn't wake from the moon to implement policies without looking at the side effect just like the way GEJ did in January 2012.

asuustrike2009:
Biafra republic

lookandlaff:
I don't think anybody would dare tax motorists on a poor road without 1st reconstructing the road.

Also I was with you on the sham called the lekki-Epe toll till I realised the contract for the road and the toll collection was packaged under Tinubu.

frisky2good:
Do you know why this comment is not getting too many likes? It's because most people in Nigeria are blind followers of these blood sucking politicians. Just wait until they tell us that the toll gates will not be managed by FG but by party bosses that will pay 500 thousand Naira per year to FG for running a toll gate at Shagamu.

IzonOwei:
h[b]e problemis because it is fashola so the plan becomes a holy plan blessed in heaven..they forget that this same fashola and his old freind tinubu has and is still scamming lagos along the lekki epe road...[/b]

I have said let true fiscal federalism take the stand so that we avoid all this one man show my people no go gree...

We would end up paying exorbitant amounts at the tolls like fools just as we collectively pay in lagos like idiots whilst suffocating in traffic jam because of the body hugged roads and no alternate roads......

arresa:
They are scamming Lagos, but they still managed to deliver more infrastructures than all the other states in Nigeria including the FG combined, but your own leaders who are not scamming you have nothing to show for the taxes and allocations they collect on your behalf..

So, who is scamming who. Obviously, you are the one getting scammed...