A Federal High Court in Lagos has today ruled that the Lagos State government cannot collect toll on the Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge.
A lawyer and rights activist, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa had dragged the state to court seeking an injunction to restrain the Lagos State Government, the respondent, from collecting tolls from motorists on the bridge.
In the application, the plaintiff stated that the respondent had gone ahead to collect tolls on the bridge in spite of a pending suit he filed seeking to stop the collection.
He The plaintiff said that the government commissioned the bridge on May 29 and started collecting tolls on June 1.
In a further affidavit he tendered before the court, Adegboruwa attached a toll ticket he received on the bridge.
“The Governor of Lagos State openly declared the bridge a toll bridge, whereby saloon cars will pay N250 per trip and Sports Utility Vehicles N350.00 per trip,” he said.
Adegboruwa described the government’s act as abuse of court processes. In the substantive suit, the plaintiff had submitted that the state government had no right to demand tolls on the bridge constructed on a Federal Navigable Waterway
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