The House of Representatives has decided to investigate the agreement between the Federal Ministry of Transportation and Messrs MPH Rail Development Limited for the implementation of the Port Harcourt-Enugu-Calabar-Abuja standard gauge rail line project.
Recall that the Federal Government of Nigeria recently clarified that the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with a United Kingdom firm, Messrs. MPH Rail Development (UK) Limited, for the design and construction of the Port Harcourt-Enugu-Calabar-Abuja standard gauge rail line on a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) basis was not legally binding.
This was said in a statement released on March 18, 2024, by Olujimi Oyetomi, the ministry’s director of press and public relations. She also added that the purpose of the Memorandum of Understanding, which was signed on February 12, 2024, by Senator Said Alkali, the minister of transportation, was to serve as a forum for additional discussion between the parties in order to decide whether or not the project could be carried out.
cc: Vanguard Ng
