Senator Smart Adeyemi, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Aviation, has requested that the Federal Government give over Ajaokuta Iron and Steel to the Kogi State Government “if Federal Government cannot resuscitate it.” ayokinews.com reports
Adeyemi bemoaned the federal government’s failure to speed up the steel’s completion.
He claimed that if the abandoned Ajaokuta Steel Complex was resurrected, it could employ more than 50,000 Nigerians.
The lawmaker made this known on Thursday, while addressing newsmen at a public hearing on his rent bill, which is set for March 30.
“It Is saddening that a potential game-changer for the nation’s monolithic economy which started in 1980s, is still at the stage of abandonment,” he said.
“If the Federal Government is not ready to see to its completion and functionality, it should be handed over to Kogi State which I believe will do the needful the way the Kaduna State Government built an iron ore firm recently with potential for thousands of jobs creation for the youth and quantum wealth generation for the State.”
“The President Muhammadu Buhari-led government is no doubt, trying, as far as building of infrastructures are concerned but such legacies without completion of Ajaokuta and provision of functions refineries; will not make much impacts economically.”
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