This amaechi is a fraud and a scam. Though I don't want to believe he is this dull. Who goes about having verbal agreement with the Chinese? How do you now enforce it? We have laws in Nigeria to promote local content, you lots signed contracts that did not reflect them yet come back to blame the Chinese.

BTW, if you pay 1/3 of 15% of a contract only, I'm not sure you can come back to complain if the progress is slow. Na money for hand back for ground okwia? At least your lies of the lag-ibd rail being completed soon has been exposed and how the Chinese don use una head. IMF must be bursting their belle right now

Authoreety:
Lies upon lies


Ameachi used the funds for election in Rivers state hoping his candidate will win...

Smh for Apc

funds the FG paid fully since 2017? your education is a waste

a verbal agreement is no agreement, Minister how can a contract expire when you only paid 1/3 of the total fees? do you think the Chinese are charity?

oh

Jaideyone:
funds the FG paid fully since 2017? your education is a waste

Did you even read the news at all? Amaechi said they've paid about 1/3. Whose education is a waste now?

erico2k2:
a verbal agreement is no agreement, Minister how can a contract expire when you only paid 1/3 of the total fees? do you think the Chinese are charity?

Na government of incompetence we dey na. Seems like they were discussing the terms of agreement over a plate of nkwobi and chilled burukutu

Is a pity, how can a man lay his hand on a lady?

God bless the lizard of ubima

Buckubuck:

Na government of incompetence we dey na. Seems like they were discussing the terms of agreement over a plate of nkwobi and chilled burukutu

hahahah

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Some children of hate and perdition will still never see any good thing in what the Minister has said.
Despite all the billions that PDP looted , after awarding this same contract to companies that never did anything for 16 years!
They have been blinded by hate, which will soon choke them out of life.

Thumbs up Mr Rotimi.
Keep up with the good job you are doing sir.
Sane Nigerians are behind you.
God bless you.
God bless Nigeria.

Must thank them for the in security they created, they can't travel from abj to Kaduna by road ( fear of bandits and kidnapper). Its rail they want to use and jump pass abi....God pass them na till Sept before e cone....
Such a joke...could not count how many times them...mention abuja to Kaduna rail line

You mean the refurbished coaches. Naija naija we love second hand.

MOUTH,NOT BRAIN,AT WORK. CHINKO WAGONS ?

See what I saw....something is fishing....What is Verbal agreement...is that a sealed contract?

No nairamockers

Buckubuck:

Did you even read the news at all? Amaechi said they've paid about 1/3. Whose education is a waste now?

U are a blessing to your generation

Cheers Man,

Abeg no waste mb for the idiot

Another monorail; this time federal. Building 10th century rail in 21st century, knuckle head. Once upon a time, there was a country called Nigeria, then came natives from their caves, equipped with fake certificates, half baked, no skills, no education, no leadership skills except cow rearing, no love of nation or sense of altruism. They vultured the nation into oblivion, tribalized our wealth and called us Naija people. Then the nation rapidly began to drift backwards geometrically. As a result, we made a quantum limp into poverty, retrogression, insecurity in all its forms from kidnapping to armed robbery, police brutality, boko haram, ethnic cleansing, religious intolerance, false prophecy, anger, sickness, high rate of infant mortality etc. Then I remembered what Shakespeare said in Julius Caesar: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

Omooba77:
Nigeria is to take delivery of 10 additional coaches that will be deployed on the Abuja-Kaduna and Lagos-Ibadan rail lines.

It was gathered that the coaches were meant to arrive in Nigeria from China by June this year and they are part of the 64 coaches being manufactured for Nigerian rail lines by the Chinese Railway Rolling stock Corporation.

The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, who disclosed this when he led a delegation to China to inspect the pace of work at the CRRC, also stated that the Chinese corporation had failed to meet the contract delivery date as agreed.

He was quoted in a statement issued on Monday by the Federal Ministry of Transportation as saying, “We need the coaches by June latest. We need coaches that can carry men from one point to another and we need a minimum of 10 coaches now out of the 64. I requested for 10 coaches now because we need to improve on the Kaduna-Abuja line.

“If the 10 (coaches) don’t come, there is nothing I can do but they have to come because they have to manufacture for us to use in Kaduna-Abuja and again Lagos-Ibadan, which will soon be ready. We also have to ensure that we get coaches that we can use pending when they finish the construction of the 64 coaches.”

Amaechi said the pace of work was slow and urged the manufacturers to improve on it, adding that the contract had expired.

He said, “The pace of construction is slow and they need to improve on it. In fact, the contract has expired; we may not have paid all the money but we paid quite a substantial sum and, therefore, they should construct speedily.

“The contract was signed in December 2017 and was supposed to expire in February 2019. The time has expired and there is a breach of contract but we will look at what the law says because more than one third of the money has been paid.”

The minister, however, pointed out that the issue was not with CRRC but a contract between Nigeria and the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, adding that the matter would be addressed in Nigeria.

The General Manager, CRRC, Zhou Junnian, explained that the passenger coach components were 100 per cent from China and materials for the works depended on the speed of the product and the customer’s requirements.

He noted that in future, CRRC would work with the CCECC to meet the high standard and quality needed to finish the projects.

Amaechi also visited the CRRC Shandong facility to inspect the cargo wagons being built for Nigeria, where he disclosed that there was a verbal agreement with the CCECC to localise the railway industry in Nigeria which was supposed to produce 15 per cent of the coaches, locomotives and wagons.

The minister said, “We had a verbal agreement for them to produce 15 per cent of the coaches, locomotives and wagons. They came back and said it was too expensive to establish locomotives and coaches factory and that we can start with the wagon and do 100 per cent assembly in Nigeria for the first five years. After the first five years, they will now build a factory that will manufacture wagons in Nigeria.

“It is not part of the contract we signed in 2017 but I insisted that for me to sign, they must localise it to create more jobs and reduce the expenditure of foreign exchange. Instead of going to buy dollars, you pay the Chinese in their local currency.

“We have to go further to ask them if we can own it. We have not talked about ownership but what we said was localise it. Although they are using their profit to build it, you can make them hand over the ownership to Nigeria. As for the assembly plant, I intended for Zaria but they chose Kajola in Ogun state.”

Amaechi further directed the Nigerian Railway Corporation to provide land for the wagon factory to CCECC before May 8, 2019.

https://punchng.com/railway-amaechi-accuses-chinese-firm-of-breaching-contract/amp/

Amaechi do you remember there is also a rail line from Kaduna to Makurdi/Enugu/Port Harcourt? Some fools do not understand why certain people in Nigeria call for disintegration.

I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT IS WRONG WITH US IN THIS COUNTRY.

WHY CAN'T WE REVERSE-ENGINEER ONE OF THOSE COACHES AND START BUILDING THEM HERE IN NIGERIA?

WE HAVE THOUSANDS OF QUALIFIED ENGINEERS IN THIS COUNTRY AND OUTSIDE.

WHY CAN'T WE JUST GATHER THEM TOGETHER, BUILD A FACTORY, GIVE THEM 1 BILLION DOLLARS AND ORDER THEM TO REPRODUCE THOSE COACHES EN MASSE??

THIS DEPENDENCY SYNDROME IS JUST SICKENING.