Tinubu, Shettima, others now to pay tolls at nation’s airports’ gates

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Mr Keyamo said the approval for this category of Nigerians to start paying the fees was given following a memo he presented at the FEC meeting.“The first approval that we sought and obtained was with the respect to mandatory payments of access fees by all visitors at our federal airport tollgates nationwide. No more exemption. No more exemption.

Would you consider supporting us with a modest contribution on a monthly basis to help maintain our commitment to free, accessible news?“And I told myself and my team, I said not under my watch. It will not happen. If this tradition has been existing for years, I will not allow it to happen. Because it is inconceivable that in our country it is the VIPs that don’t pay for services but it is the poor men that pay for services.

“In other words, where we are supposed to have a 100 per cent contract the e-costs from these e-tags that we print, it is only 18 per cent that we now end up selling. That is how bad it is. 18 per cent and 82 per cent of these e-tags are given out free of charge to VIPs. So imagine the loss at my sector and I ask myself which other sector will I go to that they give me anything free?I should not pay land charges that you waive it for me? I pay for that sector. I pay for power.

“I’ll give you another example. In one of the access gates, based on the count of the barrier going up and down, we are supposed to be making N250 or 260 million from that gate every month. That gate because of exemptions the return to us is less than N100 million every month.

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