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Amaechi angry with CCECC over delay in Kaduna-Kano, Port Harcourt-Maiduguri rail project

Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi has expressed displeasure with slow pace of work at the Kaduna-Kano rail line being handled by the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, CCECC.

Mr Amaechi said this during an inspection of progress of work on the route and that of the Dala Dry Port with some stakeholders on Saturday in Kano.

”The speed is extremely slow, the equipment that is supposed to be over 2000, all they have brought so far is 541.

”They claim that over 300 is in Kaduna, people have gone to check that; But even if you add all that, it is about 800 equipment as compared to 2000 equipment that they are supposed to bring, then something is wrong somewhere.

On the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri rail, the minister also expressed displeasure that the CCECC where yet to commence work on the site.

He said: ”It is part of what the CCECC will address us on, because we have given them some money and we think that they should start work.

”According to them, they said they will start building camps, for me who is not an engineer all those things are not my business, my business is to see the laying of tracks.

”So on Wednesday they must tell us because we can’t give all our contracts to one company and the company goes to sleep.

”They can’t say there is no land because it is an old track, you must start work,” he added.

Meanwhile, Ahmed Rabiu, managing director of Dala Inland Dry Port, has given the assurance that the port would be delivered in a few weeks.

”It is feasible to commence operation at the Dala Inland Dry Port within the next couple of weeks.

”Access road we have been guaranteed and would be completed within a week, and other facilities will be completed soon.

”We assure you that on March 31, this place will be ready and it will just wait for the Minister to do the last bit which is to declare it as a port of origin and destination,” Mr Rabiu said.

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Hushpuppi: Malami, northern political forces blocking Abba Kyari’s extradition – HURIWA

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has claimed that the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, and some other political forces in the north are blocking the extradition of Abba Kyari to the United States.

HURIWA made this claim in a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko.

Recall that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation had requested that Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, be tried in the United States for his involvement with internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas aka Ray Hushpuppi.

The rights group explained that the AGF office allowed the extradition of Kyari to linger so much till after nearly a year before it announced this week that the Nigerian government was willing to extradite him to the United States.

However, a few hours later, the media revealed that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) had since February filed eight counts against Kyari before a Federal High Court and that Kyari would be arraigned on March 7.

The DCP has been kept in NDLEA custody since February 14 when he was arrested for attempting to sell 25kg of cocaine.

“The AGF and some northern political forces must be on a conspiratorial mission because as long as Kyari is facing charges in Nigeria, he cannot be extradited to the US based on the Extradition Treaty between Nigeria and the United States,” the group’s statement said.

HURIWA said that it is either that the AGF is not even aware that NDLEA had filed charges or he knew but still authorised the filing of an extradition application even when aspects of the Extradition Treaty between Nigeria and the USA says no extradition will happen if the accused person is facing same or another charge or charges at the time of filing the extradition application.

“Malami needs to explain why his office did not ask the NDLEA not to file charges so the extradition application goes first,” it said.

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