The Managing Director, Lagos State Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Abimbola Akinajo, made this known in a statement issued in Lagos.
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Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Fred Oladeinde disclosed this during a press conference on the achievements of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
Amaechi, who disclosed this in Abuja, said that over 60 staff on project site have been infected by Covid19 while trying to complete the project.
The Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, announced that the rail project was conceived in 1987 under the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida military regime, but “underwent protracted hiccups and prolonged abandonment,” suffered massive vandalisation, till it was resuscitated by the Buhari administration, completed, and now commissioned.
The minister reiterated the commitment of the Federal Government to test-run the rail project to ensure that by May, the project could commerce commercial activities