Why We Won’t Increase Abuja-Kaduna Rail Fares – Amaechi
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, on Monday, said the government will not further increase ticket prices on the Abuja-Kaduna rail route, in order to accommodate the poor.noted he is aware of calls to increase the ticket prices, to ensure the
“So, usually, all over the world, you subsidise railway, so that the poor can have an easy means for transportation so that you improve your economy. Don’t forget, the railway is built not for passenger transportation, it is built as a means to grow the economy of a country. He explained that the number of coaches and locomotives earlier deployed to the route was for 300 daily passengers.
“Don’t forget that the coaches and locomotives are not things you just go to the shop and buy. No, you have to manufacture, you have to fabricate. It took us nearly two years to fabricate the new coaches and locomotives that are just arriving now.”On the Lagos-Ibadan railway, the Minister declined to give a deadline for the route’s completion.
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