The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, says the concession of Onitsha River Port in Anambra, will be completed before the end of 2017.
Amaechi made this known at the National Inland Waterways Authority’s (NIWA) 2nd International Conference and Exhibition’ (ICE) 2017 on Tuesday in Lagos.
According to him, the Federal Government has recorded tremendous progress on the concessioning of the river port.
“The Onitsha port was fully equipped and commissioned in January 2013.
“It has now received ministerial approval for the advert of Expressing of Interests (EOIs),” Amaechi said.
The minister said that the Nigerian Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) had carried out maintenance dredging of 200 km out of 500 km of the River Niger proposed by the Federal Government with less than N100 million.
“We are also scheduled to complete the construction and installation of cargo handling equipment at the Baro, Lokoja and Oguta Ports and a number of jetties and landing platforms in many communities along the waterways in 2017.
According to him, NIWA is waiting for Nigerians to come and take off the sand to continue with the dredging.
He commended the management of NIWA for the great achievements.
“NIWA is responsible for the dredging and government had not spent up to N100 million.
“We have come with the Change Agenda and we expect that people are disciplined to be able to deliver on their mandate. (NAN).
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