Senate Charges CCECC on Lagos-Ibadan Rail Project

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Senate charges CCECC on Lagos-Ibadan rail project



The joint Senate Committee on Land Transport with its counterpart on Local and Foreign Debt, have charged the Chinese Civil Engineering and Construction Company (CCECC) to work at a faster pace and deliver the Lagos-Ibadan rail project as scheduled.
Gbenga Ashafa, chairman Senate Committee on Land Transport and Shehu Sanni, Chairman, Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debt, gave the advise in Lagos, Monday, during a joint assessment tour of the work done on the Lagos-Ibadan segment railway modernisation project.
According to Ashafa, the focus of the inspection visit was to immediately set in perspective the commitment of the Senate to ensure a high level of accountability in public expenditure, in line with its constitutional responsibility to carry out periodic oversight functions to Ministries, Departments and Agencies under the supervision of the joint committee.
The Senator disclosed that the bulk of the committee’s work lies in the areas that concern the activities of the Ministry of Transport and all relevant staekholders in the expenditure of the loan.
According to him, ‘’As requested, the sum of $5.851 billion being the total approved loan would be expended on the modernisation of Lagos to Kano, Kano to Kaduna, Lagos to Ibadan, and Calabar to Lagos rail segments’’.
The inspection team expressed hope that the contractors of the project would keep to terms of the agreement and deliver it for the benefit of all Nigerian and in record time.

The inspection tour took the Senate Committees on a physical inspection of on-going projects on a train ride from the Ebutte Metta Junction of the Nigerian Railway Corporation to Agege where they expressed satisfaction with the progress of work done.

Source: http://www.businessdayonline.com/senate-charges-ccecc-lagos-ibadan-rail-project/

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