The Federal Government on Wednesday reported that in spite of the difficulties confronting the development of the Lagos - Ibadan rail venture, the office would be put to use by January 2019.
The administration said it had received deliberately considered measures to comprehensively handle the difficulties of deterrent caused by water, gas and sewage channels, including that Nigerians would begin getting a charge out of the rail line from the principal month of one year from now.
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, gave the confirmation after the month to month meeting of the Lagos – Ibadan Rail line Project Steering Committee at the Ibadan Railway Yard, Ibadan, Oyo State.
Amaechi was cited in an announcement issued in Abuja by the Director, Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Transportation, Yetunde Sonaike, as saying, " We trust this undertaking will be finished inside the life expectancy of development. Nigerians are putting us under tremendous weight.
" This agreement is for a long time and we are doing it inside one year and two months. Our objective is December 2018, yet at most in January 2019, Nigerians will begin to appreciate the profits of majority rule government. "
He expressed that in light of the present difficulties being experienced on the undertaking, an advisory group was set up led by the Board Chairman of the NRC, Usman Abubakar, with agents from the Nigerian Army, NRC, Lagos State Government, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and CCECC as individuals.
Amaechi included that the board of trustees would guarantee that every one of the difficulties were settled, taking note of that the partners realized that December 2018 was the due date for the culmination of the task.
The clergyman likewise expressed that the administration was working out a proposition to procure an elective land to fabricate a railroad station in Abeokuta as opposed to paying N 2 . 8 bn as pay for the proposed area.