A former Governor of Rivers
State, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has said that the current administration cannot
solve Nigeria’s poverty issues.
He also said that, “even three or
four administrations in Nigeria cannot do that because the level of poverty is
deeply rooted.”
Amaechi said this when he fielded
questions from reporters on the state of the nation.
The former Minister of Transport
added, “Look at it this way; if an economy is running purely on agriculture and
a new president comes and say no, no, that it won’t continue, we have to re-gig
the economy to create productivity.
“Before you can finish creating
such products, it would take more than 15 years because at that point, you are
not just talking about agriculture, you are talking about industrialisation,
you are talking about power, you are talking about roads and transportation.
“Now, the president is focusing
on roads, power, and transportation.
“Look at the railway, if we do
Lagos to Kano for $8.3 billion. Of the $8.3billion, N5 trillion is for just
1,500 km of railway meanwhile our budget is just N8trilion.
“If you remove N8.5 trillion from
our budget on rail lines, what about salaries and other sectors of the economy?
So no one government can fulfil all that.
“It is a gradual process and that
is why we are taking the railway project in several segments.
“And then we are under political
pressure from everybody who wants rail lines in their side to be done.
“We have done Abuja to Kaduna, we
are doing Lagos to Ibadan, we have asked for a loan for Port Harcourt to Warri
and then Benin to Onitsha while also trying to complete Ibadan to Kano.”
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