Nigeria - Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, tuesday said government would ensure that the total rehabilitation of the Abuja Airport runway will not take more than the stipulated six weeks.
A statement signed by Mr. David Iyofor, the minister’s Media Aide, said Amaechi acknowledged the pains the closure of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport Abuja would cost Nigerians, foreigners and the economy.
The minister maintained that all arrangements had been well firmed up to ensure the reopening after due rehabilitation is concluded in six weeks.
The statement said the minister gave the assurance when he appeared alongside his colleagues at a town hall meeting organised by the Ministry of Information in Ilorin, Kwara State on Monday.
According to him: “We are saying that the Abuja airport runway was built to last for 20 years but we have been using it for 34 years.
“It has become extremely dangerous to continue using it, the way it is right now. We need to close it to rebuild it and reconstruct it.
“The foundation is almost gone and what we are asking for is patience. If we don’t close it, we will be exposing lives. One of the constitutional responsibilities of the president is to protect lives and property.
“So you can’t deny us that responsibility. We believe that if we close it by March, in six weeks time we shall be able to reopen it. We know it is challenging for our economy. We think that we will keep to that six weeks.”
On the ministry’s activities in the maritime sector, regarding the North-central region, Amaechi, said his ministry was determined to commission the Baro River Port by the first quarter of 2018.
He said: “We met an abandoned maritime sector. Our target this year is that by first quarter of next year, we shall be inaugurating Baro River Port.
“We are in the process of awarding the contract for the last equipment that they will use at the River Port. NIWA is there working hard. I understand the sentiments of Baro.
The only reason why we have not gotten the contractor at Lokoja part is that we don’t trust the contractor and I have directed NIWA to go and look for the process of terminating that contract and get a new contractor to complete the project and that mandate, we have from Mr. President.”
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