Fashola announces plans by FG to toll all highways in Nigeria
Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, on Wednesday, October 2, announced that the federal government was making plans to toll highways in the country.
Fashola said the plans are already at their advanced stages to implement this new policy.
Vanguard reports that Fashola said this while speaking with State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.
“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," he said.
He said what was left of the plan is to see how the bank end of the policy would run.
Aside this, he said the government was trying to introduce the electronic mode of making payments instead of doing so by cash.
Legit.ng earlier reported that the federal government recently told state governors not to fix any road if it plans to come back for compensation.
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This was disclosed by Babatunde Fashola, Nigeria's works and housing minister, at a two-day interactive session with the Francis Uduyok-headed ad hoc committee on abandoned federal government projects (works) from 1999 till date.
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