Due to the deplorable nature of most major roads across the Country, and the high cost of maintaining these roads, in the face of dwindling resources, the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing plans to concession no fewer than 12 federal highways to private organizations to manage.
The arrangement would enable the private companies to introduce toll gates on the 12 highways and collect revenue which they would use to fund the regular maintainance of such roads. The 12 highways to be concessioned under the Ministry’s “Highway Management Development Initiative”, HMDI, are: Benin-Asaba, Abuja-Lokoja, Kano-Katsina, Onitsha-Owerri, Shagamu-Benin and Abuja-Keffi-Akwanga, Kano-Shuari, Potiskum-Damaturu, Lokoja-Benin, Enugu-Port Harcourt, Ilorin-Jebba, Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta and Lagos-Badagry-Seme Border.
