President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima will start paying tollgate fees whenever they use airports in Nigeria.
This followed the decision by the Federal Executive Council,
FEC, approval that there should be no more exemption granted to users of the
airports from paying tollgate fees.
The approval was made following a memorandum presented to
the council by the minister of aviation, Festus Keyamo, who argued that the
government was losing over 82% of the revenue it should have earned from the
e-tags that provide access to the tollgates.
He explained that the memoranda had initially prescribed an exemption for only the president and the vice president before Tinubu overruled and directed that both of them should be included among those that must pay.
Keyamo, who disclosed this at the post-FEC media briefing,
regretted that wealthy Very Important Persons, VIPs, who should pay are those
that have not been paying.
The minister said only poor people had been charged for
using the tollgates, a situation that must stop.
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