The Federal Government has announced plans to return toll gates on federal highways in the country.
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola made this known to Journalist shortly after the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa Abuja.
Fashola stated that there was no law that stopped the government from having toll gate on federal roads.
His Statement Read:
There is no reason why we can’t toll, there was a policy of the government to abolish tolls or as it were, dismantle toll plaza but there is no law that prohibits tolling in Nigeria today.
We expect to return toll plazas. We have concluded their designs of what they will look like, what materials they will be rebuilt with, what new considerations must go into them. What we are looking at now and trying to conclude is how the bank end runs.
Fashola said that the government was also considering eliminating the payment of cash and introducing e-payment for the proposed toll gate deployment.
