The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, resolved to probe 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.
It will be recalled that the Federal Government had 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 Public, Private Partnership (PPP) basis was not legally binding.
This was disclosed in a statement issued by the ministry’s Director of Press and Public Relations, Olujimi Oyetomi, on March 18, 2024, adding that the MoU signed on February 12, 2024 by the Minister of Transportation, Senator Said Alkali, on behalf of the ministry, was to provide a platform for further discussion between parties to determine whether the project could be executed or not.
