The minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike, has vowed that required funding would be provided to ensure the speedy completion of the Abuja metro rail systems.
Wike made this disclosure while taking a tour of the rail transport systems in Abuja with the FCT minister of state Mariya Mahmood and staff of the FCTA on Wednesday, August 23, 2023.
Wike stressed that the rehabilitation of the rail transport system is a short-term goal of his administration.
“Transport is one of those things that we can do in order to reduce the level of traffic within the city, and we know that we have this metro station here, and it’s not working. Why is it not working? Can we fix it within the short term so that people will say yes, this is now working.
“So, our position is that whatever it is, the company that it has been awarded, we will sit down to say for how long do you think you can complete this and then ask ourselves, do we have the resources to make sure that we don’t come back to explain to members of the public, this is why it was not finished,” he said.
