The Senate on Tuesday passed a motion seeking to revive collection of tolls on federal highways across the country.
It said collection of toll, from motorists was the only way to construct and maintain roads and enhance their efficiency.
The upper chamber of the National Assembly recalled that tolls were abolished by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2004, who argued that the revenue for road maintenance should rather be generated from an increased pump price of petrol.
A member of the Senate representing Bauchi-North Senatorial District, Suleiman Nazif, who moved the motion titled, ‘Need for the re-establishment of tolls on our federal highways,’ however, said the Senate was alarmed that the state of the country’s infrastructure, including roads, was worrisome, “particularly due to corruption and mismanagement of resources over the years.”He stated that maintenance of roads could be taken seriously instead of constructing new ones.
Nazif said even though the reintroduction of tolls was coming during economic recession, more lives were being lost due to the bad state of the roads.
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