Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi is coming to the ministry at a time when the transportation sector is in the limbo. At no time in history were Nigerians faced with the grim reality of the derelict transportation system.
- He’ll have to tackle problems of bad unsafe roads
- He’ll have to create a road map for the nation’s transportation sector. Transportation and logistics experts have decried the absence of a national transportation policy in the country.
- He’ll also be inheriting an almost moribund National Inland Waterways whose impact have been felt more on the pages of memos than in real life.
- Amaechi’ll have to command total revival of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) – not rehabilitation of the “worn out lanes,” but a replacement of same with “standard gauge”.
- He’ll inherit an auto policy which broadly aims at making Nigerians patronise made-in-Nigeria vehicles. Piloted by the National Automotive Council (NAC), the policy’s target is to encourage local production of vehicles, yet, there has not been any resolution about the kind of vehicles to come out of such assembly lines.
- He’ll have to contend with Unions such as National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN), Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD), among others.
- He’ll also have to ensure the country’s aviation sector conforms to world standards.