President Bola Tinubu will inaugurate the completed 190-kilometre Jaji-Kano section of the Kaduna-Kano project on December 3.
Dele Alake, spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) Presidential Campaign Council, disclosed this in a statement issued on
Sunday.
Alake said the 203-kilometre railway project had reached
approximately 90 percent completion.
The Kaduna-Kano railway is an extension of the existing
Abuja-Kaduna standard gauge line.
When fully operational, it is expected to connect Abuja,
Kaduna, Zaria and Kano, providing an alternative means of transportation along
a major commercial corridor in northern Nigeria.
Alake also said the 400-kilometre Kano-Katsina-Maradi
railway project had attained 70 percent completion.
He said a federal government team led by Funso Adebiyi,
permanent secretary of the federal ministry of transportation, recently
inspected both projects on the president’s directive.
He added that the team expressed satisfaction with the
quality of construction, especially the railway alignment, drainage
infrastructure, embankment protection, stone pitching and soil stabilisation.
The inspection also included a test-run train journey from
Jaji in Kaduna state to Kano to assess the completed track infrastructure and
passenger comfort.
Alake said Tinubu had directed that outstanding land
acquisition and compensation issues within Kaduna metropolis be resolved
immediately to facilitate the completion of the railway corridor between Abuja
and Kano.
He added that the completed 250-kilometre
Dawanu-Kano-Kazaure-Daura-Katsina section of the Kano-Maradi project will also
be commissioned on December 3.
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