As part of the efforts to ensure the successful implementation of road management policy in Nigeria, the Federal Government is set to adapt the South African model of tolled road management.
Mr. Abdulrasaq Oyinloye, Managing Director of the Infrastructure Bank, stated this in Abuja at the opening ceremony of a training programme on tolled roads and road management.
Oyinloye said the bank is collaborating with the Development Bank of South Africa, DBSA, to organise a two-day training for stakeholders in the road sector.
According to him, South Africa has been in the road management for the past 20 years and it is good Nigeria learn from them to reinvent the wheel.
Oyinloye said the training, entitled Tolled Roads and Road Management: A Sustainable Approach, was aimed at bringing the stakeholders in the sector on the same page.
He said this would enable them have a clear and common understanding.
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Some years back, the FG under OBJ's administration abolished toll gates, telling Nigerians that the toll fares will added to petroleum product prices instead. Today, FG under GEJ is planning to bring back toll gates. If that is done, the amount added to petroleum product then, will it be reversed? It is time for Nigerians to make these GREEDY AND INSATIABLE POLITICIANS know that WE are not FOOLS. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
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