The Minister of Works Dave Umahi has announced that once the Lagos-Calabar highway project is completed, the Federal Government plans to implement an average toll fee of N3,000 per toll gate.
Umahi made this confirmation during an appearance on the program “The Morning Brief” on Channels Television, emphasizing that motorists can expect a toll charge of N3,000 per gate along the highway.
“Let me leave out the infrastructure along the corridor. Let me just concentrate on the tolls and I put 50,000 vehicles as an average passage on these toll points per day,”
“I put N3,000 as an average cost. N3,000 because the cars could be like N1,500, and the big trucks could be like N5,000,” he said. “So, we put an average”.
Umahi giving instance of tolling 50,000 vehicles in a day at these rates could generate the cost of implementing the project in 15 years on an average
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“In 15 years, you make back the money,”
According to him, there will be security at the toll gates and also some facilities like filling stations.
“At every point of tolling, we also have toll station where we have a kind of relief activities: the restaurants, filling stations, parking lots, and so on and so forth,”
“So, people will now have confidence. In these sections, we intend to put CCTV all through.”
