President Muhammed Buhari will in July flag-off the Abuja-Kaduna Rail line for commercial operations. Making this announcement in Abuja, yesterday, after the first official test run of the rail line at the Idu Train Station, Minister of Transport, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, said barring any unforeseen hitches, the rail project would commence full commercial operations after the Presidential flag-off within the first week of July.
The Minister, after embarking on a test-run train ride from the Idu Train Station in Abuja to the Kubwa Station, stated categorically that all prospective passengers for the trains must have a valid national identity card for security purposes.
He explained that the reason why the rail operations can’t take off immediately was because they also had to take into consideration the religious obligations of the President, so that he can be invited to the official flag-off of the project.
