Amaechi gets thumbs up for transport sector reforms

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A commendation has come to Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi for retooling the transport sector in line with global best practices by Media Vanguard for Change (MVC), a nongovernmental organisation.

Addressing journalists in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital at the weekend, the group noted the ongoing reforms in the sector, saying “the Minister has brought his ingenuity to bear in repositioning the sector for effective revenue generation for the federal government.”

Speaking on behalf of the group, Comrade Ordinance Emeji said: “Within two years in office, the Minister has revamped the railway sector with a view to enhancing economic growth and effective mass transit of goods and services across the country.”

He noted that the Kaduna-Abuja rail line and other complimentary rail lines expected to run from Calabar to Lagos; Lagos to Kano and Lagos to Ibadan, when completed, would facilitate movement of goods and services across the country.

Particularly, Emeji pointed to the fact that “the Lagos-Ibadan rail line remains a strategic project that will reduce traffic and frequent accidents along the chaotic Lagos-Ibadan expressway when completed.”

With Amaechi promise to complete the Itakpe-Ajaokuta rail line before 2018, Emeji noted that “more jobs will be created and the Gross Domestic Product of the country will be boosted.”

He, therefore, urged the restive youths in the country to create the enabling environment for the dividends of democracy to thrive, adding: “only under a peaceful environment can the positive impacts of government be felt by the people.”

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