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tswitch:
No need wasting words on you.
These resources may help your ignorance and myopia:

http://www.globalmasstransit.net/archive.php?id=11191

http://www.lightrailnow.org/myths/m_monorail001.htm

https://pedestrianobservations./2013/08/24/monorail-construction-costs/

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/lagos-how-we-spent-n160bn-world-bank-loan-on-light-rail-project/188736/

http://theeagleonline.com.ng/fashola-assures-on-completion-of-lagos-badagry-expressway-light-rail-project/

http://www.punchng.com/news/lagos-light-railll-be-ready-in-june-fashola/

Also note that even Fashola is displeased with the work rate and as at today only 4 out of 11 terminals have been completed in phase one-25KM. Simple arithmetic will show you how many valuable project manhours have been expended to accomplish so little.
What gave you away is comparing construction of 2nd Niger bridge to Lekki Ikoyi Bridge. Compare terrian, strength of materials- suspensions and beams needed etc for both project before you quote me again.
That you the ignoramus feel you can give me a lecture on facility construction is baffling as passing through Eko bridge and seeing what we all know as cosmetics feeds your delusion.

mcquin:
In a football match, will one contesting team summon the referee for a private session?

Nicur:
[s]so that's what made it an extra judicial killing abi? You better go and read up what an extra judicial killing is before you come here and say what you don't know. [/s]

nagoma:
Did you consider that NEPA heat and this mago-mago are perpetuated by the same clueless administration ?

loomer:
Where u see extrajudicial killing?

Na ur type de cause confusion on earth...

meforyou1:
another bitter janjaweedean

klbakare:
[s]jonathan and his fire fighter campaign approach[/s]

Omooba77:
Thanks and this is it:

Why I cancelled Lagos metroline project – Buhari
By Abimbola Adelakun
Thursday, 7 Apr 2011


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The presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, Gen Muhammadu Buhari, has said he cancelled the proposed Lagos metro rail line project that was initiated by the government of Alhaji Lateef Jakande because he did not want to take more loans or devalue the naira.



The Lagos metro rail line was designed by the Jakande government to facilitate transportation within Lagos and surroundings but was terminated when Buhari military regime took over in December, I983.



Buhari, while speaking in Lagos on Wednesday at the presentation of his party manifesto, said when he got into power, the relatively stable economy, which was handed over to the government of Alhaji Shehu Shagari, had been badly plundered and corruption was rife in every sector. He added that the rail line project was meant to cost N100m, which was a large sum of money then, and the Federal Government was asked to guarantee the loan meant for the project.



He said, “Then, we didn’t know how much debt was on us as a nation and we felt that we should not add another N100m to it. I had to set up two committees to assess how much we owed and we promised not to take more loans or to devalue the naira but to develop the economy.”



Buhari argued that tagging him an enemy of Lagos State because he cancelled that project was mischievous and unfair, stating that the first one billion naira he spent when he was heading Petroleum Trust Fund was on Victoria Island and Ikoyi waterworks in Lagos.



Earlier, in Ikoyi, while meeting with the youth Buhari told them it was important to vote wisely as their choice will affect their generations more than his.



His running mate, Pastor Tunde Bakare, who presented the party manifesto, said God raised Buhari for Nigeria. Bakare said that within the first 100 days in office, Nigerians would begin to feel their impact. He said their party symbol was a pen because they would use it to rewrite the history of Nigeria and that after their tenure, there would be no more military intervention in Nigeria forever.



“We will begin by initiating action with the legislature so that true federalism can be entrenched in Nigeria at all levels. We call our country Federal Republic of Nigeria but we are neither a federation nor a republic. We have a lopsided government where everything reflects round the centre but we will push for true federalism in which we will have strong local governments, strong states and strong Federal Government. We will address our crippling economy by bringing in the best brains both at home and abroad. For too long, we have left politics and governance to the clueless but we want to attract the best and brightest to our government.”



Bakare also said they would be working with the legislature to expunge the immunity clause that shields the public officers from prosecution. On issues of security, Bakare said that they would be have both state and community policing system with laws put in place to prevent their abuse by power drunk tyrants.



The former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, said since they left office in 2007, the nation’s wealth had been plundered.

OrlandoOwoh:
How about your boy, Jonathan that wants to fight corruption with modern technology but is afraid of smart card readers?

HAH:
Believe me is not theory and it has nothing to do with politics, and this is not hearsay. to be precise he was killed because of COMARASS and PICOMSS.

OrlandoOwoh:
You've never trusted Buhari even he was alone in the CPC. So drop your cry that you don't trust him because of those he surrounds himself with. Why do you've problem with getting close to, say, Tinubu, but see no problem with Jonathan being with Bode George? The problem with you PDP supporters is hypocricy, getting concerned with things that are not your business and self deceit. On Sunday Okupe was complaining why the APC didn't elect Atiku or Kwankwoso in their primary election.

tswitch:
Scarcasm being the point right?

HAH:
is an open secret known to many within security circle that Funsho William was murdered because as the chairman of the then NMA(Nigerian maritime authority) he uncovered a shody deal by then minister of transport Abiye Sekibo. to be precise he was murdered by some ND militant but under the supervision of an army major who was also an accomplice to the minister, that was why the minister was sacked by obj and the major compulsorily retired from the army


in a nutshell Funshos dead has nothing to do with politics .

philips70:
It's too late for all these multiple posts to make any meaning. Nigerians have made their choice and with the unstoppable PVC, card readers and a later day uncompromising Jega, GEJ is on his way out of Aso Rock. What you guys should concentrate on praying now is for the wife not to true to her fears visit and feed him in prison. Though if I were Buhari they will all end up in jail. No mercy for these criminals.

tswitch:
I am very aware of the design and operability of any major facility construction and can categorically tell you that a 57Km rail takes maximum 36 months for commissioning and a lot less than the 160 billion the LSG has disbursed so far.
For your information the vision is flawed as it is way past it's expected delivery date and obviously cannot be completed in the next 6 months,the idea of conveying 400,000 people daily is ludicrous to be candid.How many people ply that route on a daily basis? What is the population of people in Lagos? What is the population of people in Nigeria? Which bureau cooked up such statistics?
Also note that light rail project is the most expensive of it's class in the world and it has not been completed!
Not one citizenry development or people oriented project commissioned in Lagos since 1999 and you say Lagosians want continuity?
Lagosians are tired of poor governance and massive looting of public funds hence it is high time Lagos is ruled by Lagosians.
Which is why Agbaje and Abdulkarim's time is now!
What other combination beats a successful businessman and an educationist?

donphilopus:
So many thugs and touts in Portharcourt. To evade their foolishness, they had to do what they'd just done. Jonathan secured almost 98% of the total votes cast in Rivers in 2011, and today, his votes is about reducing to 60% in the same Rivers. Can you then say he's progressing or retrogressing? Buhari doesn't need to win Rivers before he's made the President, he just has to secure a reasonable number of votes from there.

His bloc votes in Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Lagos and other states are enough for him!