By Bode Olagoke
The Committee on Transportation has recommended that the federal government should as a matter of urgency complete the Ajaokuta Steel Rolling Mill before the 2015 general election.
While presenting the reports and recommendations of the committee yesterday at the plenary, the chairman of the committee, Senator Musa Adede, said what is required to complete the project is less than 40 billion Naira, emphasizing that it is his committee’s recommendation that the project should be completed before the country will be drafted into another election in 2015.
“The Ajaokuta-Warri rail line was awarded in 1986. As I speak to you,14 years after, that project has not been completed and it is very important for us to realise our steel sector that the Ajaoukuta-Warri rail line should be completed, and so it is the committee’s view that this project must be completed and commissioned before 2015 because what is required to complete it is less than 40 billion Naira, and the more we continue to delay it, the more it will cost us to complete,” Senator Adede said.
On the merger of the three agencies in the aviation industry, the committee recommended that they should be returned to the status quo ante.
