N3,000 to be charged on average per toll gate for Lagos-Calabar coastal road

The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi has said the federal government will charge N3,000 on average per toll gate upon completion of the Lagos-Calabar coastal road. He stated this in an interview on Channels Television on Thursday, 11 April. Umahi said, “Let me leave out the infrastructure along the corridor. Let me just concentrate on the tolls I put 50,000 vehicles as an average passage on these toll points per day, I put N3,000 as the average cost. N3,000 because the cars could be like N1,500, and the big trucks could be like N5,000. So, we put an average. In 15 years, you make back the money,”. The minister also dismissed calls that the cost budgeted for the road was high. According to him, there will be security at the toll gates and some facilities like filling stations. Umahi said, “At every point of tolling, we also have toll stations where we have a kind of relief activities: the restaurants, filling stations, parking lots, and so on. “So, people will now have confidence. In these sections, we intend to put CCTV all through.”