Lagos Rail Project costs over N100bn- Sanwo-Olu

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, yesterday disclosed that the anticipated rail projects constructed by the state government will gulp over N100bn.

“It is a lot of money, it is well over N100bn”.

“I don’t criticize my predecessors but indeed for whatever planning or reasons, he never funded it. When we came back last two years, the contractor had since moved from about 55 percent to 95 percent in terms of the physical construction of Phase 1”.

The governor, who faulted the 16 year rule of the Peoples’ democratic Party, PDP, led administration said that government didn’t give the state government the right of way for the construction of the light rail, also added that the state should expect the rail project to be delivered by the last quarter of 2022.