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The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, on Saturday berated the Federal Government over its proposed move to\u00a0reintroduce toll gates to bridge funding gaps for road repairs.<\/a><\/p>\n

Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola<\/a>, who made the disclosure while addressing State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday said there is no law against toll plazas.<\/p>\n

He added that some of the logistics being worked out before the reintroduction include acquiring more lands that will provide up to 10-lane plazas.<\/p>\n

However, CACOL\u2019s Executive Chairman, Debo Adeniran condemned the proposed move.<\/p>\n

In a statement signed and forwarded\u00a0 Adegboyega Otunuga, the Coordinator of CACOL\u2019s Media and Publications, Adeniran said: \u201cWe recollect what the then President Olusegun Obasanjo\u2019s regime stated when he scrapped toll gates on our highways nationwide late in 2003 and implemented on 1st of January, 2004, to the effect that they (The toll-gates) had not only outlived their usefulness and constituted inconvenience to motorists, but also encouraged corruption. That exercise of dismantling the toll-gates across the country, reportedly cost Federal Government over N2bn (Two Billion Naira) tax payers\u2019 money. We, therefore, wonder how much of additional tax payers\u2019 funds that ordinarily should be used in easing their current socioeconomic problems, especially their suffering of travelling by those roads that were in dilapidated state for long by giving them free fuel vouchers for their endurance, rather than further extorting them.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe fact of the matter is that tolling means second or third taxation on the citizens as the roads are being repaired and rehabilitated from the pool of tax already contributed by same citizens, one way or the other while the rate payable on value added tax (VAT) on all goods and services in the country has only of recent, being proposed for an increase from five (5) percent to seven point two (7.2) percent. What this clearly shows in today\u2019s Nigeria is the fact that, \u2018the beautiful ones are yet to be born\u2019 as far as leadership that addresses the suffering and frustration of majority Nigerians is concerned. But some of us within the Civil Society circle are not altogether surprised by the process that gave birth to an outcome of this debilitating and anti-poor policy being vigorously pursued by a known hater of the poor and a pseudo-Capitalist!<\/p>\n

\u201cIn retrospect, here is a Minister of Works, who for four (4) years superintended over the degeneration and degradation of the roads and was only waiting for the right opportunity to impose more hardship on the people like he did when presided over the affairs of Lagos state. Instead of him to upgrade and expand the existing infrastructure in Lagos to accommodate the mega population that conferred the status of megacity on that state, he started to implement policies and programmes that would easily frustrate the poor out of the state. Now that we ought to persuade Nigerians that had either been frustrated out of the country or made to commit suicide or taken to criminality to have a rethink and join in the task of positively rebuilding the country, it is when the Minister of Works wants to compound their woes.<\/p>\n

\u201cAside the time, nay, man-hours and resources wasted at toll gates as we have it on Lekki road in Lagos; the queue at the plazas portend grave danger to life and property of road users as such bottlenecks could be prone to devastating road accidents, especially with fuel tankers or attacks by terrorists and insurgents. The Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari should also devise a way of sampling the opinion of end-users or those at the receiving end of any controversial government policy before finally deciding to implement them. This is the hallmark of what constitutes genuine democracy. This practice was even subsisting under the military regime as citizens were given the opportunity to discuss the desirability or otherwise of IMF loan\/ SAP and their conditionality which eventually led to rejection of the loan.\u201d<\/p>\n

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