FG To Charge Motorists Betw N1,500 – N5,000 At Toll Gate Along The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway

Federal Government to charge Motorists between N1,500-N5,000 at toll gate along Lagos-Calabar Coastal highway.

Minister of Works said this while analyzing how the money budgeted for the road project will be made back in 15 years.

Umahi said that the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway will gulp N4bn per kilometre and not N8bn per km, as claimed by Atiku.

The Federal Government (FG) has hinted that motorists plying the toll gates along the proposed 700-kilometer Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway will be charged between N1,500 – N5,000 depending on the type of vehicle.

The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, stated this during an interview on Channels Television programme, The Morning Brief, on Thursday, April 11, 2024.

During the program, Umahi said that the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway will gulp N4bn per kilometre and not N8bn per km, as reportedly claimed by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

“In 15 years, you make back the money,” he said while analyzing how the money will be made back, dismissing calls that the cost budgeted for the road project was high.

“Let me leave out the infrastructure along the corridor. Let me just concentrate on the tolls and I put 50,000 vehicles as an average passage on these toll points per day.”

“I put N3,000 as an average cost. N3,000 because the cars could be like N1,500, and the big trucks could be like N5,000,” Umahi said during the breakfast show.

The Minister also listed out some facilities that will be built along the 700-kilometer Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway aside the toll stations.

He said :

“At every point of tolling, we also have toll station where we have a kind of relief activities: the restaurants, filling stations, parking lots, and so on and so forth. So, people will now have confidence. In these sections, we intend to put CCTV all through.”

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