President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima will now pay the required fees at tollgates whenever they use the nation’s airports, Theliberationnews reports.
This was made known at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday.
The approval was made following a memorandum presented to the council by the minister of aviation, Festus Keyamo, who argued that the government was losing over 82% of the revenue it should have earned from the e-tags that provide access to the tollgates.
He added 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 Very Important Persons (VIPs) with money who should pay are those that have not been paying, noting that only poor people had been charged for using the tollgates.
He said this must now stop.
