Subsidy Removal: Njiko Igbo Forum urges FG to resume work on Railway Eastern Corridors
The President of Njiko Igbo Forum, Reverend Okechukwu Christopher Obioha, has urged the Federal Government to cushion the adverse effects of subsidy removal.
Obioha made this disclosure in a press statement made available to PERISCOPE NIGERIA, titled ‘abysmal, insensitivity and discriminatory act of the ruling class on Ndigbo’.
He lamented the failure of government to ensure optimum utilisation of railway transportation in the region, disclosing that they have been abandoned.
The statement partly read, “The first and only prioritised palliative the Executive and Legislative Arm of government in the country; to cushion the adverse effects of the removal of fuel subsidy, is to immediately commence the rehabilitation of the abandoned Eastern corridors of the Railway line from Port Harcourt to Maiduguri.”
Obioha noted that anything other than optimum operation of railway in the region, describing any other palliative as so-called.
“A situation where other parts of the country and beyond this country are enjoying railway transportation for more than 20years; but not a single traffic or movement is noticed and experienced along the Eastern Corridors, is abysmal and smacks of insensitivity and discriminatory of the highest order on the part of the ruling class.
Anything other than this as a way of palliative, will be regarded as so-called,” the statement added.
