The Federal Government has concluded designs to return the toll gate on the federal roads.
According to NAN, the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola while addressing the Federal Executive Council at the state house on Wednesday said that even though the government dismantled the tolls in the past, there is no law that prohibits tolls in Nigeria today.
“What we are looking at now and trying to conclude is how the back-end runs and that is important because we want to limit significantly if not totally eliminate cash at the plazas while ensuring that electronic devices that are being used do not impede rapid movement,” he added.
On the other hand, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the decision by the President Buhari-led administration to return toll gates on highways in the country.
The spokesperson of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan said the decision was an insensitive idea, adding that “in the midst of excruciating economic hardship and high costs of living triggered by the harsh policies of the Buhari administration, is completely ill-conceived and anti-people.”
“Since President Buhari came into office in 2015, his administration had continued to increase prices and impose all manner of levies on Nigerians which proceeds are being frittered by the cabal in the presidency leading to a bleeding economy and despondency among the citizenry.” he further commented.
However, the PDP insisted that instead of putting more pressure on already impoverished Nigerians by introducing toll gates at this point in time, Buhari should seek ways of creating wealth out of the abundant resources at the disposal of his administration or make haste to surrender the reign of governance to more competent hands.
