Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi has debunked reports the Ministry would be requiring another $650m to complete the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge.
He said: “I was merely reporting to the Senators that the entire Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge was at the cost of $1.6 billion and that we have had to request for another $650 million for additional works at both the Lagos-Ibadan and the Itakpe-Warri standard gauge. “What the CCECC has always been using as an excuse was the COVID-19 but this excuse could not be tenable because they have been back at work now in the last four months and no one has been sick on site. So we are urging them to increase the tempo of work as the government is determined to hand this over to Nigerians in January,” he said.
Shedding more lights on the need for the Kano-Maradi line, the Minister of Transportation said the government is driven solely by economic reasons.
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