The Senate, on Wednesday ordered the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi to withdraw the false statement saying the refusal of the National Assembly to approve a loan request from the Federal Government as counterpart funding was frustrating the construction of the Lagos-Ibadan and Ibadan-Ilorin-Minna-Kano rail lines.
Amaechi had during a Town Hall meeting in Ilorin, Kwara State disclosed that China Exim Bank had approved the sum of 1.5billion dollars for the construction of the Lagos –Ibadan rail project but the National Assembly was yet to approve the borrowing plan.