By Abba Auwalu Issa
The federal roads and bridges tolling policy and regulation, which will provide the legal framework for its implementation, has been approved by the Federal Executive Council.
This was revealed by Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Works and Housing, after the FEC meeting on Wednesday. After a virtual FEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Fashola briefed State House correspondents.
Tolling would not begin until the roads were made motorable, according to the Minister. “The Ministry of Works and Housing presented a policy memorandum for the approval of federal roads and bridges tolling policy, as well as a regulation that will provide the tolling policy with a legal framework,” he said.
“Agreements will need to be reached with the government through the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission.”
Fashola presented some of the highlights that would be adopted in the tolling policy.
He said an open tolling policy would be adopted as opposed to a closed tolling policy.
According to Fashola, the Council also agreed that only dual carriageways out of 35000 kilometers of the road should be eligible for tolling by the federal government.