Not a few Nigerians must have noted with shock and disbelief the vicious, unrelenting campaign of calumny which has been raging against the Federal Ministry of Transportation for some time now on the social media and in the traditional media alike. It goes without saying that the motive of the sponsors of the wicked narrative is crystal clear: to smear the ministry and its immediate past helmsman on the one hand, and the government of President Muhammed Buhari on the other.
What then is the actual cost of the innovative Lagos to Ibadan project? What is the breakdown of what the whole thing entails the process of the contracts, and associated benefits to the country? To start with, the project is segmented into Addendum 2 and 2A. Another significant fact which our investigation uncovered is that the aforementioned cost index per kilometer is not for the construction of rail track only. On the contrary, it consists of the following:ii. Earthwork: With total volume of 28.1 million cubic metres to achieve required level of formation;
vi. Stations: Eleven stations of which four are mega stations with capacity to handle 4000 to 6000 passengers at peak hours and seven other standard class stations, 3nos. freight yards at Apapa Harbour station, Kajola and Ibadan; x. Rolling Stock Workshops: Rolling stock workshops and depots in three locations on the corridor: Kajola, Abeokuta, Omi-Adio;From the above, even the blind can note the huge benefits that are in embedded in the project in fact, there are some other benefits which the country is gaining from the Railway contracts towards improving local content and capacity building in the sector. These are:
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