Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has assured Lagosians that the construction of red line rail would be completed by December and operational by the first quarter of next year.

The governor gave the assurance on Sunday while addressing journalists at Oyingbo after inspection of works on the red line rail project and stations at the Agege, Ikeja, Mushin, Yaba and Oyingbo axis of the state.

He stated that the continual inspection of the project was to ensure the deadline for the project remained unchanged.

Sanwo-Olu who was company of his Deputy, Dr Obafemi Kadri Hamzat along other members of his cabinet, reaffirmed his conviction to complete the rail project by first quarter of 2023.

According to the governor, the contractor has given assurance that all the physical infrastructures of the project would be completed by the end of December to allow testing the rail line before full operation.

He disclosed that the Agege station would be wall off in order to restrain traders activities around the area.

He added that the traders on the Yaba rail would also be relocated, saying that the state goverment had already informed the concerned traders.

In governor’s words, “We have been out since the past four to five and a half hours. Now we are here at intersection of Apapa Road that takes us to Ebute-Metta station.

“The red line rail is a project that was conceived by this administration . It is a project that started by this goverment and you can see that we are working. By the end of this year, we should be rounding up on the red line.There have been significant progress on this corridor.

“We are here to ensure that we exceed our target so that the operation will start first quarter of 2023. What they are doing is that the physical infrastructure is complete by December; the stations, all bridges, all walkways, all pedestrian bridges by December so that we can start testing. Operationally, it needs to take few months. We are hoping that operation will start within the first quarter of 2023.” (Daily Sun)

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