Plans are at the advanced stage to return toll gate on the federal highways, the Federal Government has revealed. .
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Wednesday, said there was no law that stopped the government from having toll gate on federal roads.
His words, “There is no reason why we can’t toll, there was a policy of government to abolish tolls or as it where, dismantle toll plaza but there is no law that prohibit 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.” He said that government was also considering to eliminate payment of cash by introducing electronic mode of payment.
