The Lekki Concession Company has announced that it will soon resume toll collection on the Lekki-Epe expressway in Lagos. 

In a flyer advert seen by Peoples Gazette on Monday, the company encouraged commuters to get their tag ahead of the planned resumption.

LCC further disclosed that it will be adopting the cashless policy for toll collection when activities resume.

The toll gates, which were the focal point of the #EndSARS protests in Lagos, were closed during the demonstrations in October 2020, and were later burnt following the shooting of unarmed civilians on October 20.

The authorities in Lagos, in the wake of the continued closure of the toll plaza in 2021, pleaded with the panel to allow the company resume toll collection at the plaza.

It argued that the state was losing significant revenues as a result of the perpetual closure of the plaza, which has generated billions into the state coffers since it opened in 2011.

The LCC was however granted permission to reopen the tollgates on February 6, 2021, by the Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution after five of the nine-man panel voted to return control of the toll plaza to its handlers, the LCC. 

The panel’s decision sparked outrage and was widely rejected by Nigerian youths who believed that the toll plaza should remain shut to honour unarmed protesters killed during the protest.

However, in October, the Lagos government repaired the Admiralty Circle toll plaza on the Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge and the Lekki toll plaza along the Lekki-Epe Expressway ahead of the expected re-opening of the tollgates.