The Federal Government has authorized private individuals, businesses, and others to construct, maintain and move assets on some Federal highways as it has already issued the Outline Business Case Certificate of Compliance for the start of the procurement process for the HDMI concession of 12 federal highways.
In a chart with Journalists at the State House after a meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), Fashola informed that the Country was returning to tolling its highways.
Fashola said “Let me just clarify this impression about tollgates. There is no reason why we cannot toll; there is no reason. There was a policy of government to abolish tolls or as it were, dismantle toll plazas, but there is no law that prohibits tolling in Nigeria today.”
He further stated: “We expect to return toll plazas. We have concluded the designs of what they will look like; what material they will be rebuilt with; what new considerations must go into them.”
“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.”
Fashola explained the Government was examining the method of banking transactions to be adopted at the tolls which would largely operate electronically to minimise cash transactions.
Head of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, Mrs Abimbola Asein, said the roads are Benin-Asaba, Abuja-Lokoja, Onitsha-Aba-Owerri, Shagamu-Benin, Abuja-Keffi-Akwanga, Kano-Maiduguri, Kano-Katsina, Lokoja-Benin, Enugu-Port Harcourt, Ilorin-Jebba, Lagos-Abeokuta and Lagos-Badagry.
