Why Lekki Tollgate should be abolished as Grudges Grows

To Lagos dwellers, especially the embattled citizens who live in the Lekki and Ajah axis, the toll plazas imposed on them by the All Progressives Congress, APC, administration in Lagos are tolerated with heavy grudges

The Victoria Island-Lekki-Ajah-Epe corridor is the only major road out of Lagos that was constructed through the initiative of the Lagos State Government. All other corridors to Ikorodu, Ibadan, Seme/Agbara, and Abeokuta were constructed by the Federal Government.

All the federal roads are pavilioned with complex long bridges, flyovers, drainage channels, and causeways. They are invariably between six to 10 lanes each: much wider and longer than the Lekki-Epe Expressway pioneered by the LASG.

The question is: Why should the LASG insist on erecting toll plazas on the road leading to the “New Lagos”, thus exploiting the people and applying a chokehold on ease of movement along that corridor?

 the Federal Government led by Generals Yakubu Gowon, Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida had erected toll plazas on Ikorodu Road, Apapa-Oworonshoki Expressway, Mile 2-Seme/Agbara, Lagos-Abeokuta and the second longest bridge in Africa – the Third Mainland Bridge – who will move in Lagos?  Why would the Federal Government use the money it generated from our oil in the East and Niger Delta and build massive infrastructures for free in Lagos (the former Federal Capital) only for the LASG to toll its roads and bridges built with taxpayers’ money?