President Muhammadu Buhari will within the first week of July flag-off the Abuja-Kaduna rail line for commercial operations.
Making
this announcement in Abuja Wednesday after the first official test run
of the rail line at the Idu Train Station, Minister of Transport, Hon.
Rotimi Amaechi, said barring any further hitches the rail line will come
into full commercial operations after the Presidential flag-off within
the first week of July.
The Minister after embarking on a
supervisory train ride from the Idu train station in Abuja to the Kubwa
station stated categorically that all prospective passengers for the
trains must have a valid national identity cards for security purposes.
“We
want to know the identity of who is boarding the train.We are going to
work with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to ensure
strict compliance with the directive.”
He explained that the
reason why the rail operations can not take off immediately is because
they also had to take into consideration the religious obligations of
the President, so that he can be invited to officially flag-off the
operations.
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