With the geometrical growth in the population of Lagos State, an appeal has gone to the federal government to help revive the state’s aborted Metroline Project.
Making the appeal in a chat with Assembly correspondents, a lawmaker in the State House of Assembly, Hon. David Setonji, said that the project was long overdue based on the transportation challenges facing the state.
Setonji, who is the Chairman, House Committee on Physical Planning and Urban Development, said that the major problem the state has is transportation due to increase in its population.
“The population of the state is over 20 million and we don’t have the commensurate transportation system. During the tenure of Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande as the governor of the state in the second republic, there were plans for a Metroline project and the state had an agreement on the project with a French company and gave an advanced payment.
“Unfortunately for us, in December 1983, the military government took over and truncated the project. I appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari, who was in-charge then, to help revive the project like the recently launched rail line from Abuja to Kaduna,” he said.
Adding that Buhari has the chance to right whatever wrong his government did to Lagos then on the metroline project by ensuring that as the president now the project is resuscitated.