President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima will start paying tollgate fees whenever they use airports in Nigeria.
This was in response to the Federal Executive Council’s (FEC) ruling that airport customers should no longer be exempt from paying tollgate costs.
Festus Keyamo, the minister of aviation, submitted a memorandum to the council stating that the government was losing more than 82% of the money it should have received from the e-tags that open the tollgates.
He clarified that until Tinubu overruled and ordered that they both be counted among those who must pay, the memos had originally stipulated an exemption for only the president and the vice president.
Keyamo, who disclosed this at the post-FEC media briefing, regretted that wealthy Very Important Persons, VIPs, who should pay are those that have not been paying.
The minister said only poor people had been charged for using the tollgates, a situation that must stop.
