Motorists, passengers stranded as FAAN enforces cashless toll at Lagos airport

Traffic question astir the tollgate starring to the Murtala Muhammed Airport was severely disrupted connected Sunday aft the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, began enforcing a caller cashless outgo strategy for vehicles entering the airport.

The improvement triggered prolonged gridlock, leaving hundreds of motorists and aerial passengers stranded, portion postulation travel to and from some the home and planetary terminals was heavy affected.

Confirming the argumentation shift, FAAN’s Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection, Henry Agbebire, explained that the cashless inaugural was introduced to artifact gross leakages wrong the system.

The congestion forced immoderate aerial travellers to wantonness their vehicles and edifice to motorcycles successful a hopeless bid to drawback their flights. Commercial motorcyclists, contempt existing restrictions, took vantage of the situation, reportedly hiking fares by arsenic overmuch arsenic 200 per cent.

Several motorists were observed spending adjacent to 20 minutes astatine the tollgate for trips that would usually instrumentality little than a minute, further compounding vexation astatine the entree point, which serves arsenic a large way into the airdrome complex.

Some drivers were besides seen engaging toll officials successful heated exchanges implicit failed physics transfers and delays successful outgo con...