Nigeria’s Transport Minister Amaechi Says He Can’t Guarantee When Port Harcourt – Maiduguri Railway Project Will Be Completed

Nigeria’s Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi says he is not in a position to guarantee whether the three projects that were officially inaugurated on Tuesday by the country’s President Muhammadu Buhari will be completed during the lifespan of the administration.

Mr Amaechi however says the possibility of the projects being completed before the end of the President Buhari administration is dependent on the availability of funds.

“I am not in a position to say that for now, it is a function of money actually,” the Minister said on Thursday when he featured on an ARISE News programme, The Morning Show.

He went further to say that “once we conclude, once we have the financial close for all of them, we’ll put pressure on them. For instance, all the contracts are to be completed in three years but what we intend to do is to put as much pressure as we can on the contractors to ensure that we start simultaneously at different points so that we can complete at the same time.

“If we do that at the same time, we may complete it in two years, but if we can’t, for Christ’s sake government is a continuum, we don’t have to be there to commission the projects. What is critical and important to the president is not about the history of who started it.”

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