Senator Ashafa spoke while
leading other members of the Senate and House Committee’s on Land and Transport
on an oversight visit to the Headquarters of Nigerian Railway
Corporation in
Lagos. The Chairman Senate Committee on Land Transport, Senator Gbenga Ashafa said……….
“As you are well aware, the
bulk of this committee’s work is particularly in the areas that concern both
the rail and mass transit departments and agencies of the Ministry of
Transportation”.
“Having had the benefit of
listening to presentations and recommendations from the Honourable Minister of
Transportation, the Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation and
all other stakeholders at the budget defence before the committee on the 3rd
and 4th of February, 2016 as regards the level of work done/ the budgetary
performance of the 2015 appropriation Act, it is now imperative that we as
members of the committee in both houses conduct our on the spot assessment of
all the paperwork submitted and defended before us”.
“It is quite obvious that
while we have inched closer to where we ought to be as a nation in the area of
land transport, we are clearly not yet anywhere close to the mark”.
“Thankfully, we can all attest to the attitudinal change in governance, which
has ensured that the budget for construction of railways in Nigeria has
significantly increased from the meager N565, 170, 128 appropriated in 2015 to
the sum of N90, 043, 073, 649 proposed by the presidency,” he said.
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