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| Minister of Works, Mr. Mike Onolememen |
The Federal Government has concluded plans to reintroduce toll gates on the federal highways, beginning from January 2012.
Minister
of Works, Mr. Mike Onolememen, on Thursday told the Senate Committee on
Works that the proceeds from the toll gates would be used to effect
repairs on the roads, which are currently in a state of disrepair.
Onolememen
said his ministry was working towards getting a draft policy on
re-inventing tollgate collection before the end of the year.
He
said, "We are going to raise a Bill to introduce a policy that will
gradually lead to the rehabilitation of our roads by re-introducing
tollgates across the country because it is one of the ways that can
guarantee sustainable development of our road network. We realise that
our road sector needs a major reformation effort.
"We
have set in motion the necessary machinery that will lead to the
maintenance and rehabilitation of Federal Government roads through
formation of road maintenance policy."
According
to him, the works ministry has conducted a tour around the six
geo-political zones and discovered the extent of damage on the roads.
He
said the government would introduce other fines for the violation of
traffic on the highways, noting that in the process more funds would be
mopped up for the maintenance and rehabilitation of federal roads.
Source: Punch
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