As part of the efforts to ensure the successful implementation of road management policy in Nigeria, the Federal Government is set to adapt the South African model of tolled road management.
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Mr. Abdulrasaq Oyinloye, Managing Director of the Infrastructure Bank, stated this in Abuja at the opening ceremony of a training programme on tolled roads and road management.
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Oyinloye said the bank is collaborating with the Development Bank of South Africa, DBSA, to organise a two-day training for stakeholders in the road sector.
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According to him, South Africa has been in the road management for the past 20 years and it is good Nigeria learn from them to reinvent the wheel.
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Oyinloye said the training, entitled Tolled Roads and Road Management: A Sustainable Approach, was aimed at bringing the stakeholders in the sector on the same page.
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He said this would enable them have a clear and common understanding. of issues and dynamics, surrounding, financing, construction, operation and maintenance of the road sector.