A throwback video of Rotimi Amaechi, Nigeria’s minister for transportation defending the Lagos-Calabar railway project, has emerged.
This video was shared by the All Progressives Congress (APC), where it sought to diffuse the uncertainties surrounding the controversial exclusion of the said projects from the 2016 budget.
Reports emerged that President Muhammadu Buhari refused to sign the controversial budget, citing several anomalies in the document, especially because it was different from the original copy sent to the National Assembly recently.
It was gathered that the president was particularly disappointed because the provisions for major national projects and programmes were either outrightly removed or funds for such were slashed.
And earlier today, Senator Gbenga Ashafa, the chairman, Senate committee on land and transport,
confirmed that the Lagos-Calabar railway projects were not included in the initial budget sent to the House.
In a press statement issued on Monday, April 11, Ashafa said: “I confirm that the Lagos to Calabar rail line was not in the original document that was presented to the National Assembly by the Executive.
“However subsequently at the budget defense session before the Senate Committee on Land Transport, the Hon. Minister for Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, did inform the committee of the omission of the Lagos to Calabar rail modernisation project and indeed sent a supplementary copy of the ministry’s budget to the committee which contained the said project.”
The party has now moved to clear the air on the controversial missing part of the budget by uploading a throwback video of the former Rivers state governor speaking on national television.
Watch video below:
[REFUTING THE LIES] Video Showing Amaechi Defending the Lagos – Kano/Calabar Railway Projects Before the NASS
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This video was shared by the All Progressives Congress (APC), where it sought to diffuse the uncertainties surrounding the controversial exclusion of the said projects from the 2016 budget.
Reports emerged that President Muhammadu Buhari refused to sign the controversial budget, citing several anomalies in the document, especially because it was different from the original copy sent to the National Assembly recently.
It was gathered that the president was particularly disappointed because the provisions for major national projects and programmes were either outrightly removed or funds for such were slashed.
And earlier today, Senator Gbenga Ashafa, the chairman, Senate committee on land and transport,
confirmed that the Lagos-Calabar railway projects were not included in the initial budget sent to the House.
In a press statement issued on Monday, April 11, Ashafa said: “I confirm that the Lagos to Calabar rail line was not in the original document that was presented to the National Assembly by the Executive.
“However subsequently at the budget defense session before the Senate Committee on Land Transport, the Hon. Minister for Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, did inform the committee of the omission of the Lagos to Calabar rail modernisation project and indeed sent a supplementary copy of the ministry’s budget to the committee which contained the said project.”
The party has now moved to clear the air on the controversial missing part of the budget by uploading a throwback video of the former Rivers state governor speaking on national television.
Watch video below:
[REFUTING THE LIES] Video Showing Amaechi Defending the Lagos – Kano/Calabar Railway Projects Before the NASS
pic.twitter.com/5LislhvSHw
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