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The Minister for Railways Development, Joe Ghartey says government is resolved to ensure the Country’s railway system works effectively for the benefit of all Ghanaians.

In light of this, he said the Rail Ministry through the Railway Authority will rehabilitate all old trains to argument new ones.

Mr. Ghartey said this when he inspected a repaired old Conventional train with five compartments at the Tema Railway Workshop.

The tour was to inspect on-going rehabilitation works on the coaches was as part of its enhanced monitoring programme.

The old train which was repaired at a cost of One Million Ghana Cedis was undertaken by engineers of the Ghana Railway Authority.

The train, named 1679 will soon shuttle from Accra to Nsawam.  

Joe Ghartey also engaged the workers on the progress made so far.

In an interview with journalists at the site, the Minister disclosed that work on the rails  eere far advanced and will soon be finished for the public to have access to the facility.

He said, contrary to previous plans, to scrapped old coaches, government decided to rehabilite them instead:, “We are not scrapping our old coaches…..The Ghana Railways Company Ltd. has rehabilitated them and that is what we are going to do from nowadays,” he said .

Prior to the visit to the Tema Railway station, the sector Minister and his team paid a courtesy call on the Paramount Chief of Tema, Nii Adjei Kraku II.

In his address, the Minister said, as the father of the land, it would be unwise for his part to step foot in the township without paying homage to the chief.

He briefed the chief on the purpose of his visit and pleaded for his prayers and blessings to enable him and his team to accomplish his mission to the Town.

The Tema Manste, Nii Adjei Kraku II for his part, expressed his joy saying he, together with his elders and people of Tema are ever ready to work with the government to bring development to the Tema township.

He assured them of his blessings and support throughout the duration of the project.

The Tema Mantse promised to provide food for all the workers at the Tema Railway station.

Some portions of this article was culled from Daily Guide online.

                                                   

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