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.
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