Damilola Adeyemo
ABUJA – Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has said that the Federal Government has borrowed about $2.5billion for the construction of a railway linking Lagos to Ibadan.
During an interview Amaechi said “If you look at the whole total cost, it will be $2.5 to $2.6 billion that we have borrowed from China Exim bank,”
“But at the end of the day, the project is costing about $2 billion. The government is coughing out more than just $200 million. We are bringing out about $700 million because we have to end to the seaport in Apapa which was not part of the original design.
“So we had to take about 45kilometres rail from Ebute-Metta into Apapa seaport. Everything together is about $2 billion. There is an additional one they are going to bring to connect Tincan Island Seaport to Apapa, that will be some extra cost which we have to borrow from them.
“They also lent us about $1.4 billion for the Lagos-Ibadan while the Federal Government had to cough out about $200 million to make it $1.6 billion.”
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