The federal government has proposed a budget of N287.820 million for the completion of Abuja (Idu) to Kaduna rail line.
The project, expected to have been completed, would now get its share of the budget from the N5.294 billion allocated to the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) this year. The corporation has the highest monetary allocation compared with other parastatals of the federal ministry of transport this year.
Vice President Namadi Sambo, on his many visits to the construction sites of the rail line, maintained that it would be completed and made ready for haulage by December 2014. The corporation has also ear-marked another N2 million for the conduct of promotion, recruitment and appointment exercises this year.
NRC will also be spending N229 million on new projects, ranging from track rehabilitation of Lagos - Jebba, Port Harcourt to Makurdi, Karu - Maiduguri, and Zaria - Kaura Namoda in Zamfara State, to the procurement and rehabilitation of rail wagons.
The ministry’s headquarters got N2.577 billion from the total allocation of 11.981 billion for transport and its agencies in 2015.
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