Resumption of Toll operations Illegal - Lekki Residents

LEKKI residents, under the aegis of Lekki Peninsula Phase 1 Residents Association, have asked the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to suspend the planned resumption of toll at the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge and the Lekki-Epe Expressway.

In an open letter to the governor on Tuesday, signed by the association’s Chairman, Yomi Idowu, the residents raised socio-economic reasons and other issues that are yet to be addressed which they said made the decision to recommence tolling “unjust, oppressive, and illegal.”

The letter read, “We view with deep concern and trepidation the less than transparent attempt at recommencing tolling activities at the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge, even as matters relating to the #EndSARS protest, which led to the termination of tolling activities in the first place, remain largely unresolved. The issue is compounded by the myriad of issues bedevilling the rationale to toll at this location.

“It is against this backdrop that the Lekki Phase 1 Residents Association implores the Lagos State Government) to apply wisdom and shelve its plans to resume toll collection on the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge.”