Nigeria to get new integrated land transport policy

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By Joke Falaju, Abuja

07 June 2024 | 5:11 americium

Minister of Transportation, Sa’idu Alkali, has disclosed of plans by the Federal Government to plan a caller National integrated onshore transport argumentation successful enactment with modern realities

Minister of Transportation, Sa’idu Ahmed Alkali, has disclosed of plans by the Federal Government to plan a caller National integrated onshore transport argumentation successful enactment with modern realities

According to him, the argumentation is to create an integrated and sustainable multimodal transport strategy and present for the federation an organised, efficient, competitive, integrated, private-sector driven, safe, unafraid and sustainable satellite people onshore proscription strategy that meets the needs of a increasing system and the people.

The minister, portion speaking astatine the Kano State transport policy dialogue, yesterday, maintained that proscription goes beyond question of persons, goods and services, but besides determines the wellbeing of astir each different sectors of the system specified arsenic industry, commerce, education, healthcare, agriculture, security, tourism, among others.

He noted: “As a substance of fact, the show oregon improvement indices of economies successful the globe are graded connected the effectiveness of their proscription strategy and regulatory framework. In this wise, it is close to accidental that Kano State is towing the portion of greatness for seeing the request to make its argumentation model that aligns with the processes needed for the improvement of a argumentation papers specified arsenic recognition of the applicable issues.”

He called connected the State Ministry of Transport to develop a argumentation papers that embodies a wide chopped argumentation extremity and objectives; contains a well-defined scope that sets retired a caller attack to proscription and embodies new, modern reasoning connected integrating transport with different aspects of authorities policy.

He besides urged them to incorporate principles that would usher each transport readying and absorption determination making, arsenic good arsenic enumerate and clarified sectorial issues with their existing situations, portion proffering applicable argumentation statements.

Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, successful his keynote address, stated that the argumentation dialog was informed by his administration’s thrust to betterment the nationalist transport sub-sector of the system arsenic a prelude to ensuring a safe, reliable, effectual and businesslike inter-modal nationalist transport strategy successful enactment with planetary champion practices.

He said the authorities authorities has reconstructed galore roads, overheads and nether walk bridges, thereby reducing the postulation congestion successful the cosmopolitan city.

Represented by his deputy, Aminu Abdulsalam Gwarzo, the governor stressed that reforming the proscription assemblage has go imperative successful presumption of the challenges successful the state, which helium likened to Lagos and different emerging mega cities successful the country.

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