by Pita Chib, Minna

The Blue Resolution initiative (TBRi), has blamed President, Mohammadu Buhari for commissioning Baro Port in Niger State before the 2019 general elections, saying no reasonable structures are in place for that effect

The Secretary General, Ibrahim Akib Ja'afaru, made this known to newsmen in Minna on Tuesday evening.

Ja'afaru said the team and other youth leaders who visited the site, described what the president commissioned as Warehouse not port

According to him, it was discovered that no serious dredging of the River Niger took place, adding that was not intended for any big ship or vessels but barges of low or medium economic activities, while urging the federal government to explained the true intentions of Baro Port to Nigerians

Ja'afaru also solicited for immediate revocation of the contract for the construction of the road from Agaie to Baro due to its substandard nature and re award it to a reputable construction firm that would dualized it to stand the taste of time, saying that the port commissioning was politically motivated.

He said,  "federal government is seriously unserious over the project actualization, they are paying lip service to the project thereby politicizing to the detriment of the state."

He expressed regret that Niger state government has never made its presence known in Baro, adding that lack of access roads, electricity, portable water, health facility, equipped school and other essential services are the problems facing the port.

He lamented that seventeen months after the said commissioning of Baro Port by President Buhari it remain abandoned, advising citizens and other stakeholders in the host state and Northern Nigeria to rise up  for their responsibilities to make the place better.

Secretary General also hinted that the group will not be deterred by efforts by some government organizations to frustrate them like Nigerian Inland Waterways Agency, Lokoja who denied them access into the port