Intending train passengers
Tuesday expressed their disappointment over the closure of the Iddo railway terminus in Lagos, two days after a train derailed at the station.
Our Correspondent recalled that a Kano-Lagos Mass Transit Train Service derailed at the Lagos Terminus on June 1.
The accident resulted in the death of an assistant driver and the injury of the loco driver.
The terminus was still under lock and key with armed security men preventing people from gaining entrance to the area.
Officials of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) said the corporation was carrying out minor renovations at the terminus.
Many intending passengers were apparently not happy when the NRC officials directed them to the next station to board trains.
An intending passenger, Mr. Sunday Aina, heading for Ijoko in Ogun, told Our Correspondent that the NRC was fond of disappointing its passengers by depriving them of necessary information.
“NRC always behaves funny; I did not hear or read anywhere that they have closed down the terminus.
“If the corporation takes its passengers as important, they should have informed them,” Aina said.
A civil servant, Mr. Chris Joseph, who brought his wife, to the station to board a train to Agbado, expressed his disappointment over the closure.
“I brought my wife here but unfortunately, we were told that there was no service at the station, an official, however, directed us to next station,” Joseph said.
Commenting on the development, the Public Relations Officer of the Lagos District of the NRC, Mr. Ademuyiwa Adekanmbi, said that the closure was a directive from the management to put the station in order.
Adekanmbi, who urged commuters to bear with the management, said that the terminus would soon be opened for public use.