Tinubu, Shettima To Pay Tollgate Fees At Airports.
President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima said, they will
start paying tollgate fees
whenever they use airports in Nigeria.
This followed the decision of the Federal Executive Council 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 also said, 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 the tollgates. .
Keyamo, who disclosed this at the post-FEC media briefing, regretted that
wealthy and very Important
Persons, who should pay the tollgates are those that have not been paying.
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