The Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, yesterday at the 1-year memorial lecture held in honour of the former General Secretary of Alliance for Credible Election, ACE-Nigeria, late Comrade Emma Ezeazu, said the President’s agenda is not just to recover loots from within and outside the nation.
Recall that the President, Muhammadu Buhari has since his assumption into office waged a heightened war against corruption in the country and also signed agreements with other foreign governments in order to facilitate the repatriation of the looted funds in their economy.
Amaechi while speaking at the event which held in Abuja explained that “the President’s agenda is not just to recover loots.”
He continued: “We are recovering as much as we can. But the president is determined to create employment. That is why you can see his focus.”
Speaking on the developments of his department and its contribution to the economy which is facing a hit, Amaechi said: “In transportation, from Kaduna to Abuja, we have created over 700 workforce. What did I do? I said all the villages or those communities along the route; I said they should give them level six down.”
As further calls into the development of the railway sector heightens, the Transportation Minister said: “Their job is to march on that railway from the beginning to the end to see there was no security breach. The rest of the applicants will go online to apply for the jobs. They said if we publish it, people will die the way it happened during immigration recruitment exercise and they will say Amaechi should resign. This year, we will start the Lagos-Ibadan, railway project. You know the difference between us and the rest, we will not say ‘go and start’, we will look for counterpart funding.”
Amaechi while revealing other proposed projects said: “Tomorrow, I will sign the contracts for Calabar-Port Harcourt railway project. Before the week runs out, I will sign Kano-Kaduna.
“That is what we are doing. This is to show you that we are moving away from the corruption economy to production economy.”