*Exemption In Payment of Tollgate Fees, Tinubu Gives Fresh Order – Details*
The President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President, Kashim Shettima will now henceforth pay the required fees at tollgates whenever they use the nation’s airports.
This development came as the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting he presided over at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday approved that there should be no more exemption granted to users of the airports from paying tollgate fees.
According to the report, 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.
Keyamo stated 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.
The minister of aviation revealed this at the post-FEC media briefing, regretted that Very Important Persons (VIPs) with money who should pay are those that have not been paying, noting that only poor people had been charged for using the tollgates.
He emphasized that this must now stop.
Details to come later…
