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Parents kick as railway mgt denies students ride to Lagos
- …We did it for security reasons —NRC
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EKO HOT BLOG reports that parents of students at the Federal Government Girls’ College, FGGC, in Oyo urged the federal government to look into the operations of the Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC, on the Lagos-Ibadan axis, for allegedly denying their children the right to board the train from school back to their parents in Lagos.
According to Mr. Atanda Adesina, Chairman of the Parents/Teachers’ Association, PTA, the action was evidence of widespread corruption in the system.
About 130 of their children, according to him, were taking the train back to Lagos after their exams, but the management wanted them to pay for two coaches, which is far more than the amount of their kids.
Adesina said: “We decided to start using railway because of the insecurity in the land. Now, the manager in charge is denying our children their rights. We have 130 children and the NRC is expecting that we should buy two coaches, which is far more than the number of our children. We all know everyone is only managing the reality of the economy in the country. Many of the parents are struggling to survive; how can you add more burden on them?
“It is corruption. This is the way the Federal government is losing revenue. The manager and her colleagues know that they will surely get paid, even if nobody boards the train.”
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We did it for security reasons—NRC
When contacted, the Western District Manager of the NRC, Angelique Ikwuka said the management decided to dedicate separate coaches for students because of security reasons.
Ikwuka, who said the parents ought to have given a two-week notice to the management, noted that the decision was not affecting only the college but other schools in the Southwest.
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