Minister of Power, Works and Housing Babatunde Raji Fashola has confirmed that Nigeria is set to re-introduce tolls on Federal highways linking states.
During his media conference yesterday,
“Maintenance would be our watchword. We are setting up a robust maintenance regime to keep our highways in good shape.
This shows that tolling is necessary to support government funding. So, it will not be too much if we ask every road user to pay little to augment government funding for road maintenance.
It is eminent commonsense for us to find that money. We will use technology; so if we don’t pay cash, you will pay by tokens or tickets and the money is accountable and it will go to the right place.
We will manage that fund properly and we will hold those who we put there to account.”
So Gidipeeps, what do you think about Fashola’s plans?
Not a bad idea… So far they handle the ticketing well and not directed to their political cronies.