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Amaechi: You have to wait… we didn’t promise to solve these problems in one year

L-R; President Muhammadu Buhari, Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi and Speaker Rt Hon Yakubu Dogara and others as President Commission/Flag-off Abuja-Kaduna Commercial Operation Rail Station at IDU Station in Abuja.

Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, says the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari did not promise to solve the country’s problems in one year.

Speaking at a town hall meeting in Ilorin on Monday, Amaechi advised Nigerians to wait till the end of four years before assessing the government.

“We did not promise you that those challenges will be solved in one year; if we promised you that, you would have given us one year,” he said.

“You gave us your mandate for four years, so you have to wait till the end of four years.”

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He also said the federal government had secured a $7.5 billion loan for the construction of a standard rail gauge from Lagos to Kano.

According to him, the $7.5 billion was part of the $30 billion the federal government sought approval for from the national assembly.

The minister said $1.4 billion out of the loan would be used for the construction of a rail line from Lagos to Ibadan, and $6.1 billion would be spent on the Ibadan–Ilorin–Minna-Kaduna– Kano rail line.

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He said work on the eastern rail, linking Aba to Port Harcourt, Makurdi, Enugu and Jos, would commence in June.

Amaechi added that that the loan, if accessed, would enable the government to embark on the revitalisation of rail projects which would in turn create more jobs for Nigerians.

Also speaking at the meeting, Abdulfatah Ahmed, governor of Kwara, said there was the need for synergy between states and federal government, to fix the country’s infrastructure.

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1 comments
  1. does it mean that from the creation of imo state, there is no link rail line from aba to owerri to enugu state? of all these capital project memtioned so far where dose eastern state benefited?

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