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A thread that made frontpage this morning....
https://www.nairaland.com/5449091/fg-returns-toll-gates-federal#82774861

THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS;
But in 2011, the ACN and indeed Lai Mohammed called it obnoxious and heavily criticised it.

ACN Opposes Re-Introduction Of Toll Gates

Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:48 pm

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has condemned the plan by the federal government to re-introduce toll gates on major highways in the country from next year, saying there is no justification for it.

In a statement issued in Ilorin, Kwara state, on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party described the plan as the latest in a string of obnoxious policies being pursued by the federal government, including the planned removal of fuel subsidy, the hike in electricity tariff, the single-tenure plan and the so-called Sovereign Wealth Fund.

”President Goodluck Jonathan, in his inaugural speech, said ‘the urgent task of my Administration is to provide a suitable environment for productive activities to flourish’. How can that happen now that his administration is emasculating Nigerians with a series of anti-people policies?

”Perhaps the President needs to read his own inaugural speech again so he can redirect his energy toward making life more abundant for the people, instead of inflicting sufferings of Biblical proportion on them,” it said.

ACN wondered whether the federal government is aware of the deplorable state of the roads across the country before even contemplating the re-introduction of toll gates, adding that no one should ever be made to pay for services not rendered.

”It is a cruel irony that the toll gates that were removed seven years ago when the roads in the country were still fairly motorable and are to be reinstated now that the roads have virtually disappeared. Nigerians daily die on the traps that the roads have become, and all a government can say is that it will impose tolls on the same people. What style of governance is this?

”The ideal thing would have been for the government to begin a massive rehabilitation of the roads across the country, then allow Nigerians to ride freely on these roads for some time, if only to make up for the years they have suffered on the roads, before any contemplation of reinstating toll gates.

”The federal government may want to borrow a leaf from the Lagos state government, which has intervened to delay the payment of toll on the well-paved portion of the Lekki-Epe Expressway.

Today, Lagosians are enjoying a smooth ride on that road without yet paying any toll,” the party said.

ACN said all it takes for a government that runs on ideas is to evolve creative ways of maintaining roads, especially those that have not been handed over to private investors under the BOT programme, instead of the fixation on toll collection on non-functioning roads.
https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2011/11/10/acn-opposes-re-introduction-of-toll-gates/


So, where do we go from here?
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This set of politicians and integrity should be distanced apart.

Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.(C.J)

Where will you classify Lai Mohammed?

Liars I'm government.

Kwanza:
Let us discuss......

People that are OP and trying to occupy FTC same time might be selfish in the real world.

SLAP44:
People that are OP and trying to occupy FTC same time might be selfish in the real world.

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Kwanza:
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Hypocrisy runs in the average veins of Apc stalwarts'

Internet is the karma of today, it neither forgives nor forgets.

What will Nigerians do with this news? Nothing but rant on the Internet as usual and ofcourse time as well as other useless event such as BBN will let it pass just like every other hypocrisy of the government of the day.

Damnable hypocrites that will forever roast in hell.
Every lie the APC have ever told or policy they ever opposed have always come back to hunt them wella.

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I am not even perturbed at all because we all are in it together, dem no know who be pro-Buhari or anti-Buhari. Everybody must pay the damn toll. #SaiBaba




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