Since the tax we pay can no longer longer carter for our road maintenance The Senate on Thursday advised the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government to immediately re introduce toll gates on every Federal Roads in the country in order to generate necessary funds to fix the dilapidated infrastructure.
Adopting the report of the Ad-hoc Committee on Works on the “Total Collapse of Federal Roads in Nigeria” during plenary on Thursday, the upper chamber equally directed its Committee on Works to meet with the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission to strategise methods of funding federal road projects.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo ordered demolition of toll gates erected on the country’s highways in 2004.
However the upper chamber believed that revenues that would be collected from the scheme would be channelled into maintaining federal roads.
Chairman of the committee, Senator Barnabas Gemade, also recommended the rebuilding and constant maintenance of existing roads infrastructure as well as introduction of weigh bridges to protect roads.
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