Three toll gates issue between Ajah VGC Chevron Lekki and Mobil by LCC Lagos

On the LCC website (www.lcc.com.ng) there will be three Toll Plazas in all. The first will be located near the Palms Shopping Complex (Km 3); the second near Chevron (Km 13); and the third near Crown Estates (Km 23). The toll, according to the company, is the only means through which the company will recoup its investment.
The announcement of the commencement of toll collection in May 2010, which was billed to start in the last quarter of 2009, has caused ripples, especially among residents of Lekki and Ajah.

In their advertorial in a national daily titled, ‘The fraud called toll collection on Lekki-Epe Expressway’, the residents condemned the intention of LCC to collect toll before completion of the project.

“If we may ask, what is the urgency about toll collection in a 44-kilometer road, out of which only a 2-kilometer stretch has been completed? It is laughable and inconsistent with global standard practice to hear that a road concessioning assignment with a life span of 30 years is already attracting toll collection when only 5% of work has been done. LCC obviously knows that this is fraudulent because expectedly, the period from commencement to completion, which in this case, would have been from 2006 to 2009, should ordinarily be taken as gesticulation or ‘test-run’ period,” read the advertorial which is a sequel to an earlier one titled: ‘Lekki-Epe Expressway Expansion, Right Now a Curse’.