‘It was avoidable’ – NRC MD, Opeifa speaks on Abuja-Kaduna train accident

The Managing Director/CEO of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, Dr Kayode Opeifa, has described the Abuja-Kaduna bid mishap arsenic an avoidable incident.

Opeifa said this connected Monday portion addressing newsmen soon aft the incident, adding that they recorded 22 injuries.

DAILY POST had reported that respective passengers were confirmed injured arsenic an Abuja en-route Kaduna bid connected Monday derailed aft a collision.

Reacting, Opeifa said: “It was an avoidable accident, and we person recorded 22 injuries. I personally took the bid aft the mishap to guarantee Nigerians that we are taking work and information is our priority. There was nary derailment oregon fatalities.

“We privation to convey God for life. We privation to convey God that it wasn’t worse than it is. It is simply a azygous bid accident, not arsenic if 2 trains collided.

“We adopted the hose methodology, that for each train, determination volition beryllium 2 engines alternatively of one, truthful that if determination is an incident, the 2nd motor volition determination the train.

In this case, we took disconnected from this morning, and we discovered that thing happened to 1 of the engines overnight, and we decided not to spell with that.

“Somewhere on the line, astatine Asham, determination was a collision from that backmost engine, which was not the 1 driv...