Abuja-Kaduna rail: I want us to break even - Minister says

The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, says his expectation for Abuja-Kaduna rail service after two years of operations is for the route to break even and not about profit making.

Amaechi made the statement in an interview in Abuja on Tuesday on the second anniversary of the service.

The minister said that the ministry was putting in N56 million monthly and getting N16 million from the service before the fare was increased.

“We have done two years, the first step I took was to reduce the fare, which I did deliberately and people started asking us to increase it and we increased it to what people can afford.

“People are standing on the train because it’s a cheap and safe means of transport.

“`When we started, we were putting in N56 million per month and making just N16 million by subsidising it.

“What I want is just for us to break even not making profit.

“People like the train because we’ve been prompt, clean and we kept the fare low; so we have shown that there is nothing wrong with the blackman.

“There is nothing like international standard, we can beat any standard if we focus on it.

“The train is not being managed by whitemen or CCECC, it is being managed by NRC,” he said.

Meanwhile, Mr Fidet Okhiria, the Managing Director of NRC, said that he measured profit by service delivery and not income.

He said that the focus was on service delivery where passengers could get a train every 30 minutes.

“I don’t measure my profit in naira and kobo but by service delivery.

“We have increased from four coaches to 14 coaches, which is a great impact, we are almost clocking one million passengers daily.

“We have ordered more coaches and locomotives that will arrive next year, our target is to run every 30 minute on passenger train.”

Abuja-Kaduna rail: I want us to break even - Minister says

The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, says his expectation for Abuja-Kaduna rail service after two years of operations is for the route to break even and not about profit making.

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