Senate on Tuesday unanimously passed a motion seeking to restore toll gates on all federal roads across the country.
Senate decision was sequel to a motion sponsored by Senator Suleiman Nazif who expressed dissatisfaction over the state of federal roads across the country lamenting that the situation ad become a “national shame and embarrassment”.
He said the re-establishment of toll gates would solve “the nation’s generally dilapidated road networks”.
Besides revenue generation, the presence of toll gates, which are normally managed by armed security agents, provides a level of safety for road users,” he said.
Nazif in his presentation asked “the senate to set up an ad-hoc committee to carefully study the toll-gate policy together with other relevant stakeholders on effective and efficient ways to carry out the policy aimed at producing a holistic package to generate adequate funds for road construction and maintenance, and the money realised should be judiciously utilised in order to restore confidence in the masses”.
After extensive debate on the motion, Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who presided over the plenary session, put the motion to question and was overwhelmingly supported by Nigerian Senators.
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