Amaechi Targets April 2020 for Completion of Lagos-Ibadan Railway

Minister of Transportation, Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, has stated that the Lagos-Ibadan rRailway project will be completed in April 2020.

This is even as he reassured that test-running of the train would commence by the end of November 2019.

Amaechi reiterated that with the pace at which the contractors are currently working, he was optimistic that the completion period would be achieved.

The minister gave the hint last Saturday shortly after inspecting the project site in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

According to him, “We are no longer giving ourselves the time; the contractors are the ones giving us time. By April next year, we should be out of this place. There is huge improvement compared to the last time we were here. The contractors have assured us that by December 20 this year, the laying of tracks would have gotten to Ibadan station. This means that the focus will no longer be on the tracks but on the completion of the stations, communication and Signal operations, and once we achieve all that, it means we are out of Ibadan.”

Amaechi said: “They are eager to complete the stations but the constraint at the moment is that the equipment have not arrived from China, and our argument is that they should get some things from Nigeria. They are expecting pipes and other things, and they requested that we should give them one or two months to complete the stations. They equally wanted to import glasses and doors from China but we have to put pressure on them to buy those glasses and doors in Nigeria in other to quicken the time with which they would install them.”