Former Governor of Lagos State and Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, revealed yesterday that the Federal Government is planning to reintroduce toll gates again on the highways, according to reprts from vanguard news, the revenue generated will be channelled towards sustaining and maintaining quality federal roads. He also promised that money generated from the toll gates will be properly accounted for and judiciously put to use.
The newspaper further reports that Fashola, in his maiden press conference at the Ministry of Works in Abuja, also said the former Ministry of Works owes 206 contractors over N2 trillion for which only N13 billion was released to the Ministry out of the N18.132 billion it budgeted for.
he said
“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 a little to augment government funding for road maintenance.
“It is eminent commonsense for us to find that money. We will use technology; so if you 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.”
The are also plans to build low income housing estate in all states of the country.
Good step!
source: vanguard newspaper
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