President BOLA TINUBU and Vice President KASHIM SHETTIMA will now pay airport access toll and parking fees at any of the nation’s airports.

This was as the Federal Executive Council (FEC) chaired by President TINUBU approved a memorandum from the Ministry of Aviation scrapping toll exemptions for all Very Important Persons (VIPs) and government officials using the airports.

The Minister of Aviation, FESTUS KEYAMO, who announced this to newsmen after the FEC meeting, argued that the government was losing over 82 per cent of the revenue it should have earned from the e-tags that provide access to the airports.

He explained that the memoranda had initially recommended an exemption for the president and the vice president. 

However, President TINUBU overruled the recommendation, insisting that he and the Vice President alongside their aides must pay tolls.

KEYAMO lamented that VIPs who have the money to pay tolls are evading payment, leaving the authorities to rely on charges gotten from the poor.