Efforts by successive administrations to implement the national transport master plan that will see to the dredging of Nigeria’s inland water ways could not be achieved because some powerful interests are opposed to it, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Yakubu Dogara, has said.
Speaking when he received the Managing Director of National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) Senator Adeleke Olurunnimbe Mamora in his office, Hon Dogara disclosed that in the last three years, he had taken up the issue of implementation of the national transport master plan at different times and at the highest levels with different people but his efforts hit a brick wall.
At a point, according to him, he was told that the Chinese had handed down a negative verdict on the project saying it was not feasible and useless.
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