Nigeria: Fashola Advocates Movement of Cargo By Rail to Save Roads

13 September 2016

The Minster of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has inspected the ongoing rehabilitation of access road to Apapa-Tin Can Island Port in Lagos, calling for the movement of cargo across the country by rail in order to save the nation's roads.

Fielding questions from journalists after the inspection of the project which included the construction of a new bridge running parallel to the existing one from Liverpool Roundabout across Port Novo Creek, Fashola, who expressed dismay at the rate the roads and bridges are collapsing as a result of stress of cargoes on them by the tankers and trailers, warned that unless the trend is reversed, the transportation business would be adversely affected.

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