NRC Gets Commendation on Railway Projects

The National Assembly has commended the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) for its ‘revolutionary drive’ in the railway sub-sector, even as the lawmakers anticipated that the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail line project would be inaugurated in April 2020 as promised by the corporation.

The Joint Committee on Land Transport of the National Assembly, during their legislative oversight functions and inspection of the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail line, assured Nigerians of its unflinching supports to the President Muhammadu Buhariled administration.

In another development, the members of the joint committee charged the NRC to ease the burden on Nigerian roads and the suffering masses by connecting the standard gauge to the airport and Tincan ports as well as connecting all the state capital by rail lines.

The Chairman, Senate Committee on land Transport, Abdulfatai Buhari, who led the delegation on inspection of the Lagos-Abeokuta section of the standard gauge, expressed satisfaction on the present level of the ongoing project.

Buhari, while addressing journalists at the Abeokuta train station, said the railway sector has justified the monies appropriated to them in the 2019 budget.

He noted that another money had just been appropriated three days ago to further reinforce work, adding that the present administration has taken transport sector as the major cardinal project, saying the committee was very happy with the job done so far at Lagos-Ibadan rail line project.