The Federal Government plans to charge an average toll fee of N3,000 per gate upon completion of the Lagos-Calabar coastal road, confirmed Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, during his appearance on Channels Television’s “The Morning Brief” on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet 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,\u201d Umahi said on the breakfast show.<\/p>\n
\u201cI put N3,000 as an average cost [for toll fee]. N3,000 because the cars could be like N1,500, and the big trucks could be like N5,000,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, we put an average\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 15 years, you make back the money,\u201d he said, dismissing calls that the cost budgeted for the road was high.<\/p>\n
According to him, there will be security at the toll gates and also some facilities like filling stations.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt 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,\u201d Umahi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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