Cash Payment To End At Lekki Toll Blaza By Next Year
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Authorities of Lekki Concession Company has said that, effective from Wednesday, January 1, 2020, cash payment will no longer be accepted at the Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge toll plaza.
Road users were notified of the company’s intention on Monday via a giant banner on display.
The banner states: “No more cash payment @Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge Toll Plaza, Wednesday 1st January 2020.”
It may be recalled that, at the peak of campaign for election, then governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, last December had paid the toll fee of drivers passing through the Lekki-Epe Expressway for an hour — an act that irked his closest contestant then, Mr. Jimi Agbaje of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Then in July this year, as governor, Sanwo-Olu had opened the plazas to motorists.
The government said it was in continuation of its “real simulation survey” of traffic situation in the Lekki-Epe and Ikoyi axis, with the aim of reducing congestion there.
A statement by Deputy Governor Obafemi Hamzat’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Gboyega Akosile, had explained that the July toll-free passage on Lekki-Epe Expressway and the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge would run between 6:30 am and 9:30am and 4:30pm to 7.30pm.
Meanwhile, there has been no official statement by the Lekki Concession Company about the planned migration to electronic payment.
Well during the upgrade, electronic passages at the Toll Plazas and the online payment platforms were impacted from 9th – 15th November, 2019. The upgrade migrated customers’ toll accounts, such as e-Tag, Swift Pass, to the newly installed system.
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on Dec 3 2019. Filed under National.
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