{"id":658,"date":"2024-05-14T19:04:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T19:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2024-05-14T19:04:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T19:04:55","slug":"tinubu-shettima-vips-to-pay-airport-parking-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2024\/05\/14\/tinubu-shettima-vips-to-pay-airport-parking-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu, Shettima, VIPs To Pay Airport, Parking Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>President Bola Tinubu and the Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, will now pay airport access toll and parking fees at any of the nation\u2019s airports.<\/p>\n<p>This was as the Federal Executive Council chaired by Tinubu approved a memorandum from the Ministry of Aviation scrapping toll exemptions for all Very Important Persons and government officials using the airports.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister, Mr. Festus Keyamo, who announced this to journalists, after Tuesday\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the memoranda had initially recommended an exemption for the president and the vice president. However, Tinubu overruled the recommendation, insisting that he and the VP alongside their aides must pay tolls.<\/p>\n<div id=\"show360playvid\" class=\"360playvidUnit\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOur memo says \u2018with the exception of the President and the Vice President\u2019. But the President overruled me and said he and the Vice President will pay, he said everybody will pay,\u201d Keyamo revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister lamented that VIPs who have the money to pay tolls are evading payment, leaving the authorities to rely on charges gotten from the poor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t pay the access fees. They don\u2019t pay for parking, they don\u2019t pay for essential services at airports, and they are VIPs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container desktop-only margin-top margin-bottom \">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAnd I told myself on my team, I said not under my watch. It will not happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Keyamo vowed to end episodes where uniform officers harass airport staff at the gates, assuring citizens that more cameras will be \u201cplanted\u201d in strategic positions to capture those culpable.<\/p>\n<p>He said the FG stands to generate N10bn annually from tolls, even as it considers a rebate for military veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Details shortly\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu and the Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, will now pay airport access toll and parking fees at any of the nation\u2019s airports. This was as the Federal Executive Council chaired by&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,35],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nass","tag-nigerians"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}