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Stop Railway Vandalism, Fidet Warns Pilferers
Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, Fidet Okhiria, has bemoaned the pilfering of clips, bolts and knots on the Lagos/Ibadan rail line.
He said 5,000 clips and 10,000 bolts as well as knots had been replaced along the rail track and there is a possibility of an accident without those instruments.
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He said, “You can’t imagine that between Lagos and Ibadan, we have replaced over 5,000 clips and close to 10,000 bolts and nuts on the track and it is not a good thing at all.
“Without those things on the tracks, accidents can occur.
“We know the volume of passengers on a train. So vandalism of rail infrastructure has to stop.”
Okhiria added that government would still go ahead to extend the Lagos-Ibadan line to Kano in three years.
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