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Lagos-Ibadan Railway: Amaechi Tasks CCECC To Increase Workforce

…Project Excites Info Minister

Minister of Transportation, Rt.Hon. Chibuike Rotimi has tasked CCECC to take preventive measures against the spread of Covid 19 and increase the workforce at the ongoing Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail project to speed up completion by Jan. 2021.

Amaechi regretted that Covid 19 has come to stay, government would push to complete ongoing projects and deliver to Nigerians before 2023.

“What I know is that we will run from now until the President commission the project. I am not Covid19, for those who have being following us, you know that for every stations, we had about 150 to 200 workers, now we have 10 to 20 workers on site.

“What we have agreed with them is that they should increase the number of workers and manage Covid very well, meaning, that they should come with their face masks, face shields and come to work, because it appears that Covid has come to stay.

“Government has to run and we have to deliver our promises to the people because that’s why we were elected and we don’t have time. If we just seat down in our houses and wait for Covid to end, it may end in 2023, lets hope that by January, this project will be ready.”

Speaking on the Ibadan-Kano rail project, Amaechi said government would commence skeletal activities before the loan is approved.

“We are ready for the commencement of Ibadan to Kano, we are waiting for the approval of the loan, when the loans come, you will see skeletal activities even before the loan comes, I have directed them to start skeletal services, we may not need the stations to begin.

However, the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed commended the level of work done on the Lagos-Ibadan rail line. He expressed satisfaction that monies borrowed by the federal government for the rail projects were judiciously utilized.

According to him, “for those who are asking where we are burning the money we borrowed, you can now see where the money is. We made a promise to Nigerians and this is one of the manifestations of what we have been able to do, adding, ” Nigerians should come and see for themselves what we are doing with the money we borrowed. I am very excited because of the work done here.” He said.

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