The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has urged Lagosians trading along the rail line to move far away from the rail tracks as it is unsafe for them.
He made the call after assuring Nigerians that the Lagos-Ibadan standard guage rail line would be ready by December, this year.
The minister was on his monthly routine inspection tour of the rail project in Lagos and Ibadan, Oyo State capital.
According to him, a market at Agege encroached into the rail line and only moved away when the traders sighted the on-coming train.
“As for people trading along the rail line, please move far away from the tracks. It is unsafe to peddle around the tracks. We saw a market at Agege encroaching into the rail line. As soon as we start running, they have to give way,” he wrote on his Twitter after the inspection.
Amechi also said that two other railway projects have been proposed and forwarded to the cabinet for approval.