Senator Ishaku Abbo, the senator representing Adamawa North District, was among the lawmakers present at the continued screening of ministerial nominees in the Senate on Monday 29th.

Senator Ishaku Abbo during a Senate Plenary session asked Babatunde Raji Fashola why the railway lines to Maiduguri were not extended to Mubi despite its economic potentials of the biggest Cow market in the whole of West Africa and the second-largest economy after Kano in Northern Nigeria.

Sen Abbo said

"The federal government budget over 107 Billion Naira for Railways alone, and the Northeast was excluded leaving only Maiduguri rail. Leaving out now, economically viable places and towns like Mubi which is actually the second-biggest market in the whole of Northern Nigeria after Kano State. And Also, the biggest cow market in the whole of West Africa leaving it for the only road that is not so good, what is plan Sir, for actually extending these railway lines to these places."

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Hmmm