
The president of the Nationwide Union of Highway Transport Employees (NURTW), Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya (aka MC Oluomo), has described the federal authorities’s choice to toll some highways as a welcome improvement.
Akinsanya stated it will improve the upkeep of the roads and make them last more.
In keeping with Akinsanya, tolling of highways is just not synonymous with Nigerian alone, stating that freeway tolling is a norm in some superior nations he has visited.
The NURTW boss urged the federal authorities to position satisfactory safety on these roads for the protection of highway customers and staff.
He solicited that business buses must be given sponsored charges if the federal government can’t embrace them among the many classes of automobiles exempted from the tolling.
The classes of automobiles exempted from the tolling embrace safety, diplomatic, ambulances, and tricycles.
Akinsanya referred to as on the federal government to re-invest funds generated from the tolling to construct extra highways and renovate present ones.
The Minister of State for Works, Bello Goronyo, yesterday, stated the toll order charge schedule for Abuja-Keffi-Akwanga-Lafayette-Makurdi Federal Freeway has been designated as follows: cars-N500; SUV Jeep-N800; minibuses N1000, and multi-axle automobiles, vehicles and buses N1600.
Nonetheless, frequent highway customers just like the business mild automobiles outlined beneath the Federal Highways Act, will get pleasure from a 50 % low cost.
Approved automobiles, pedal automobiles, tricycles, bikes, and different modes of two or three-wheel transport utilized by primarily deprived populations shall be provided a 100% low cost.