Was that during the time of late General Sani Abacha or General Babangida?
No, I think it was during Babangida’s regime, this western countries, these western companies got contracts inside Ajaokuta and these were very big, big contracts like sharing between Western and Eastern European countries and then the complain subsided. I want you to comment on this issue. Ajaokuta like you rightly said started in 1979 during the Shagari administration, but critics of late General Abacha are saying that, there was nothing that was achieved at Ajaokuta during the tenure of the late General. that is completely untrue, when we came towards the end of 1993, all the steel rolling mills in Jos, in Katsina, in Oshogbo and in Delta Steel Rolling Mill were completely shut down and inactive. We revitalised them and brought them back to life and made them produce steel for Nigeria, so also reactivated and started using those steel rolling mills inside Ajaokuta itself. We made sure that the railway lines started and achieved progress and this project was stalled. It was functiona
