Speaking on the train, during the test from Iju, Lagos, to the Ogun state capital, Abeokuta, Amosun said he knows for a fact that Adeosun and her ministry played an active part in seeing the project succeed.

“Congratulations to Nigerians, and well done to President Muhammadu Buhari, and well done to the honourable minister of transport, and those in the finance ministry, because I know for a fact that the former minister Kemi Adeosun played very significant role in what we are seeing today,” Amosun said.

“This will spur development, it would improve our socio-economic development. Imagine the quantum of goods, cargo that would be moved within cities, between the north and the south.

“Imagine the turnaround that will be happening to our industries and factories; imagine moving cargo from Lagos to Kano that takes maybe weeks, will take probably maximum of a day now.”
THESE TRAINS WILL SPUR DEVELOPMENT

Speaking on the impact the railway revival will drive in Nigeria, Amosun said it would employ Nigerians and remove the problem of terrific traffic.

“Imagine the convenience that people that now use the train system; just yesterday, there was an accident on the road, 15 – 18 hours. Imagine the numbers. You will need about a thousand vehicles to carry the same number that we are carrying now.

“It is endless; look at the safety, look at the security implications of what we are doing today. Terrific traffic will be removed, look at the number of people that this employs.

“Look at the development this would spur anywhere the train passes; by the time you get to the station, you would see people taking advantage of the location of those stations to turn into a megacity.”

The federal government is currently running non-commercial (free) rail transport from Lagos to Abeokuta for about one to three months.

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A statement by his spokesman, Isa Gusau, said Shettima spoke on Saturday on an Arise News programme.

According to Gusau, Shettima explained that his government from 2013 to date, remained the sole financiers of hundreds of successful operations against Boko Haram carried out by more than 20,000 volunteers of the Civilian JTF.

Gusau quoted his principal as saying the Civilian JTF play crucial roles in intelligence gathering, easy identification and arrest of suspected insurgents and supporting the military in the war fronts.

The spokesman said it was a laughable irony that in recent days some “mischief makers are doing everything possible to smear Governor Shettima over the Boko Haram crisis, whereas the same mischief makers regularly acknowledge the roles played by patriotic members of the civilian JTF”

“They deliberately ignored the fact that in the last six years, Governor Shettima has been the sole person giving approvals for the operational vehicles and logistics, recruitment, training, payment of allowances, kitting and surveillance equipment to these over 20,000 heroes, under the Civilian JTF that have given everything to the fight against Boko Haram.

“The mischief makers ignore that back in 2013, it was Governor Shettima who drove the process of getting making office of the National Security Adviser to approve the operational activities of the Civilian JTF and he has remained the only one funding all their operations including the coordination of their recruitment and deployments after clearance by the DSS.

“The same Governor approves funds to support gallant members of the Civilian JTF including allocation of lands to the to own houses so as to encourage them and guarantee their future” Gusau noted.

“Only last month, the Chief of Army Staff at the closing of his annual conference in Maiduguri and before the media, described as “overwhelming”, the commitment of Governor Kashim Shettima to the Nigerian Army in the fight against Boko Haram.

“Similarly, in 2014, then Director of Operations at the Defence headquarters, Major General Lawrence Ndugbane (now retired) said before the media, that Kashim Shettima is one of the Governors who helps the military to generate actionable intelligence through the Governor’s regular interactions with community leaders in Borno State. )

“These are all on record. So, attempts by anyone to change these public records will, like previous other attempts, become futile exercises,” Gusau added.

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