The Federal Government plans to ban the movement of certain category of cargoes on some roads after the completion of major railways in the country.
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, said this in Lagos during a panel session on infrastructure development and financing at an event organised by Deloitte on Nigeria Economic Outlook 2020.
While giving an account of ongoing rail construction and other new ones to be constructed, he said it was important to transfer the cargo movement to the rail track.He said railway transportation for passengers was usually subsidised but was uncertain if cargo would be subsidised, adding that the cost of construction must be paid back.The minister said that movement of goods would be faster when they were moved by railways than roads, which would also be time-saving for businesses.
In their last meeting with the states governors, he said Transportation Ministry agreed that it could construct some level of roads that would take the passengers out of the stations. The minister said that they also agreed that contractors could construct some few metres of roads out of the stations, but others were to be done by the state governments.
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