By Seyi Babalola
President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima will begin paying tollgate fees anytime they travel through Nigerian airports.
This came after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) decided that airport customers should no longer be exempt from paying tollgate costs.
The permission came after the minister of aviation, Festus Keyamo, presented a memorandum to the council, claiming that the government was losing more than 82% of the cash it should have gained from the e-tags that give entry to the tollgates.
He explained 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.
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.
