The
Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide,
says the people of Lagos State should blame the presidential candidate
of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) for
the heavy traffic motorists face every day.
She said when Buhari
was the Head of State between December 1983 and August 1985, he
terminated the Lagos Metroline project initiated by the Alhaji Lateef
Jakande administration to ease traffic in the metropolis.
Akinjide said this in a statement on Monday.
She
said by so doing, Buhari truncated the opportunity of a free-flow of
traffic within the metropolis and by extension, the economic growth of
the South-West.
She said the countries that were nowhere near the
growth attained by the South-West when the APC presidential candidate
stopped Metroline project had since advanced to become world economic
powers.
She said the Lagos metro rail line was designed by the
Jakande government to facilitate transport within Lagos and its
surroundings but was terminated when Buhari military regime took over.
She said,
“The
visionary Jakande administration had concluded all the plans to finance
the project, putting everything in place for its successful execution.
My father provided the legal frame work in his capacity as the Attorney
General at the time, and the state government had deposited $50m after
securing a $450m loan at six per cent fixed interest rate for 25 years.”
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