MINISTER
of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, on Thursday said the federal government
has fixed the transport fares on the newly completed Abuja to Kaduna rail lines
at N500 per passenger per trip on the economy class.
Amaechi disclosed this
during media interactions after the final inspection of the project which is
due for inauguration by President Muhammadu Buhari next week in Abuja, adding
that the test-running of the facility has been on for more than a month with passengers
being ferried from Kaduna to Abuja free of charge...
“From the experience that we have all seen
today, we are set to go. This test run exercise has been on for over a month.
We said it was going to run for two weeks but we allowed it for six weeks so
that everybody can use it.
“As you can see we sought
the opinion of the passenger before fixing the fare, they suggested N500 on
economy and I will do just that.
“The reasons why we did
not commission earlier is because we wanted the train to run for at least a
month and check if there will be any problem but we have done that for over a
month and there was no problem”, Amaechi said.
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