President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday declared that siting the
University of Transportation in Daura, Katsina State, will boost local
capacity, economy, domestic technology, enhance innovation in the
nation’s transport system and create more job opportunities.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the university, President
Buhari noted that the transport sector was in dire need of new thinking,
skills and investments, assuring that the institution would open up
greater opportunities for economic growth.“The project is part of
Federal Government’s efforts at promoting and developing indigenous
capacity through technology acquisition and knowledge transfer to
effectively maintain and operate railway infrastructure,” he said.
In a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and
Publicity, Garba Shehu yesterday, the President said government would
pursue its policy on development of indigenous capacity vigorously.“When
established, the university would, among other things, pave way for
domestication of railway engineering and general transportation sciences
in Nigeria, thereby bridging the technology and skill gaps in the
railway and transportation sector,” he added.
President Buhari said the university, which is an investment by China
Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC), would be fully
supported by the Federal Government with guidelines to ensure
domestication that would support local infrastructure.While commending
the Ministry of Transportation for the initiative and the Katsina State
Government for providing land for the institution, the President said
his administration would continue to prioritise railway transportation
to reduce cost of transportation and ease movement across the country.
Speaking, Governor Aminu Bello Masari noted that the university would
further boost the state’s efforts at providing sound education and
technical skills to indigenes of the state.He added that the state’s
infrastructure had improved with the construction of roads, adding that
the university would further provide requisite technical and managerial
skills.
Meanwhile, amidst controversies trailing the siting the institution
in Daura, President Buhari’s hometown, Minister of Transportation,
Rotimi Amaechi, said the decision was totally his and was not influenced
from any quarters. Explaining how the idea of the university was
conceived, he stated that he had insisted on the construction of the
university of transportation, a factory for the construction of
locomotives, coaches and wagons and training of Nigerians students in
Chinese universities on transportation technology.
He stated that this would facilitate management of the country’s
growing rail infrastructure as a prerequisite before signing the
agreement for the Lagos-Ibadan Rail Line with the China Civil
Engineering Construction Company (CCECC). “When we sighted the factory
at Kajola, there was no noise, nobody debated it and nobody abused us.
Nobody influenced me. Anybody who accuses me of being a sycophant, I
admit it in advance that I am a sycophant. And if you know the President
very well, you will know that sycophancy does not sit well with him,”
he added.
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