Train Passengers Stranded At Station

Passengers on Ogun-Lagos Mass Transit Train Services (MTTS)
of Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) were last Thursday disembarked at Agbado
Station, about nine kilometers to Ijoko Terminus, their destinations, following
train derailment.

Our correspondent reports that the MTTS terminates at Ijoko
Terminus.

Competent source told our correspondent recently that the
development was because a train derailed at Ijoko.

Passengers going beyond Agbado were stranded at the station
for about three hours and had to trek from Agbado to Itoki, about three
kilometres, before joining commercial vehicles and motorcycles to their
destinations.

Okada riders seized the opportunity to hike fare from N60 to
N200.

The NRC District Public Relations Officer, Mr Ademuyiwa
Adekanbi, told our correspondent that the “trains cannot go beyond Agbado
Station because of the defect on the tracks.”

Adekanbi said that the safety of the passengers was
paramount to the corporation and urged the passengers to bear with it.

He said that the corporation had commenced repairs on the
defective tracks and that train services to Ijoko would commence  soonest.