Flag off of the Abuja - Kaduna rail operations will be done on Tuesday 26 July 2016 by President Mohammed Buhari.
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, carried out a final check on the Abuja-Kaduna railway project on Thursday July 21st.
Speaking at the Idu station of the rail line in Abuja, he said: “we are ready to go. From the things we have seen today (July 21, 2016), we are set to go. This test run exercise has been on for over a month. We said it was going to run for two weeks but we allowed it for six weeks so that everybody can use it.”
The Minister of Transportation, was on an inspection tour of the train from Idu station to Jere station and back to Idu in preparation for the flagging off.
Passengers at the rail line persuaded the minister to reduce the transport fare from N600 to N500 – The minister gave in to the pleas and reduced the fare.
Commercial services will start immediately after the official launch.
Rail transportation is very vital for agricultural produce distribution within the country. The sector is therefore waiting for the project to go round. This will greatly reduce cost of produce movement, bringing down drastically the prices of foodstuffs.
As we are in a hurry to bring about the necessary agricultural revolution, we should also be in a hurry to get rail transportation working with network running across major cities in the country.
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