I heard the latest thing pissing off the children of anger on Twitter is the award of Kano-Kazaure-Daura-Maradi/Dutse Railway.Did they tell them only Fulani people will be allowed on the rail carriages? It is an infrastructure for Nigeria & Nigerians. Sell easily to Niger. Simple
The Kano-Daura/Kazaure-Maradi corridor, is an ancient trading route. I thoroughly enjoyed my visit there last year - read about it here. link.medium.com/QQgg8PWw29
Why can’t people be happy for development?
Will they be unhappy when they learn my people in Ado Ekiti too will enjoy the “Amaechi Rail” courtesy of a spur to Oshogbo to join up the Ibadan-Ilorin-Kano rail too? Yes o! Na God do am. Keep crying while we rejoice!
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For those Shouting Seme Border, Benin is the one selling to Nigeria let them build rail from Cotonu to Lagos, we will accept it. We sell to Niger, Chad and Mali, all landlocked. And that is priority now. Rail starting from Apapa to Marada makes sense. Makes Lagos Port Competitive
And infrastructure is not mutually exclusive. By all means, Seme Border road should be fixed quickly. But it shouldn’t prevent rail from getting to Ado Ekiti and Kazaure. Lets stop this pettiness. Moreover this work is multi-year. Probably takes 5-10 years. But we start NOW.
Kano is an historic route for jobs and commerce in the North -deep into the Sahel region- currently decimated with unemployment and banditry, whatever we can do to re-energize that economy where they are makes sense.
Because if we don’t, that problem will come down South and decimate whatever economic advantages you think you have. I support AKK Gas Pipeline as much as I support EIIJ Gas pipeline. I support Kano to Marada rail , same way I support Lagos-Ibadan/Oshogbo-Kano Line with Ado Ekiti
Infrastructure to connect the Nation enables people and goods movement that unite disparate people and lands. The agents of disunity are the ones that hate the Apapa to Maradi Rail Line. We as Africans must start cancelling colonial borders too. ECOWAS is ONE.
One last point - to decongest and save Lagos we need to develop the hinterlands! Ikole Ekiti, Kazaure, Yola , Mubi , Awka- they all need development. Most Nigerians live outside Lagos. Get used to it. Ciao
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