The said rumor that court has stopped toll collection on the Lekki-Ikoyi bridge has been dismissed by Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Ade Ipaye. Justice Saliu Saidu of the Federal High Court, Lagos, had  in a judgment held that there was no law backing the imposition of tolls on the users of the bridge. Ipaye said the judgment was ambiguous as the court failed to make any consequential order or declaration barring toll collection on the bridge. He said therefore toll collection would continue on the bridge.


He said the government was going to appeal and file an application for stay of execution of the judgment. He disagreed with the court as he maintained that contrary to the judge’s pronouncement, section 29 of the Private Public Partnerships Law of Lagos State had made provisions for collection of tolls even existing public assets regardless of how the said assets were procured or constructed.

Ipaye maintained that tolls would continue on the bridge. He said aside from the failure of the court to make any consequential order or declaration, “the judgment  contained at least two or three fundamental  errors.”

He said the payment of N10m by Julius Berger which constructed the bridge to the National Inland Waterways Authority, was never a concession that it was the Federal Government which had the power to regulate inland waterways within the state.