#NoJusticeNoToll: Nigerians protest the reopening of Lekki-Ikoyi toll gate

Ima Elijah 11:24 - 01 April 2022

Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge Toll Plaza

Actual collection of tolls will begin on April 14, after a two-week window.

Nigerians have expressed displeasure over the re-opening if the Lekki-Ikoyi toll gate, which has been shut since the violent aftermath of the EndSARS protest.

The toll point had been shut down since the nationwide violent protests, after the Lekki toll massacre. The toll gate operation came to a halt in 0ctober 2020 after it was vandalized and set ablaze.

The Lekki Concession Company (LCC) had announced that tolling begins on Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge today, Friday, April 1, 2022, 18 months after it was suspended. However, actual collection of tolls will begin on April 14, after a two-week window.

In response, some Nigerians on Twitter, have taken a stand against the re-opening of the toll point, demanding that justice be served for the lives lost, and unaccounted for, at the massacre.

Lend your voice to this cause please, the victims of the Lekki Toll Massacre have gotten no justice, it is an insult to their memories to collect money there. Retweet this if you see this tweet!!! #NoJusticeNoToll pic.twitter.com/m5UuLHOuAF
— Dami’ Adenuga (@DAMIADENUGA) March 31, 2022

Lekki toll gate resumption is inhuman, disrespectful and will not be tolerated, the young Nigerians lives that were lost at the toll gate massacre 17 months ago at the Lekki Toll gate won’t be forgotten and their deaths won’t be forgiven.

#NoJusticeNoToll
— Adenekan Mayowa (@Mayorspeaks) April 1, 2022

It’s been 17 months since the Lekki TollGate Horrors. Yet, victims of the Massacre are yet to receive justice. Resuming tolling at that Unholy Ground is not only ill-advised, it is wrong, sacrilegious & exploitative. #NoJusticeNoTolling #NoJusticeNoToll
— NEFERTITI (@firstladyship) March 31, 2022

It’s time to remind every #EndSARS advocate that those who perpetrated the #LekkiMassacre are about to reopen the bloody toll gate.

We must say #NoJusticeNoToll !!!
— Rinu Oduala 🔥🔫 (@SavvyRinu) March 30, 2022

While some have also demanded accountability for operations so far, others have raised concerns about the impact reopening the gate would have on traffic, businesses, and the livelihood of people in the area.

My argument against reopening the Lekki toll gate is that while it'll bring money to the gov., it will bring monumental loss to businesses. Tolling will lead to increase in traffic congestions. Traffic congestions leads to timeloss and ultimately money loss #NoJusticeNoToll.
— Nigeria Needs Freedom (@nisimimike) April 1, 2022

These are the issues🤲🏿....tomorrow we #OccupyLekkiTollGate
all citizens of conscience should join us. #NoJusticeNoToll pic.twitter.com/RPA2B2TyL9
— Duke Of Motherland (@DukeMotherland) March 31, 2022

Why are u so desperate to open, of whose benefit? Can u give account of the money you've been making all these years & show where you've been spending it? Lagos is nobody's personal bizness, if the people say "no justice no toll", respect ursef & do the needful #NoJusticeNoToll pic.twitter.com/KAP2dwH1PO
— HENRY ADEBAYO ✊🏽 (@iam_henreal) April 1, 2022

until we have accountability on generated revenue, and justice for the murder of patriotic youths killed in their prime in quest for a better country, it’s #NoJusticeNoToll pic.twitter.com/8969nEr4qd
— oladiPuPo (@PlentyPlus) April 1, 2022

In 2021, the Government of Lagos State had released the report of the state’s judicial panel on Lekki shooting and police brutality cases in the state.

In the report, the panel concluded that nine people died from the shooting at the Lekki tollgate on October 20, 2020.

But a white paper committee set up by the state to look into the panel’s reports rejected the panel’s claim, saying there are “fundamental inconsistencies” in the report.