‘It was not overloaded’ — Nigerian Railway Corporation speaks on Warri-Itakpe train accident

The Director-General of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, Kayode Opeifa, has said the bid progressive successful the Warri-Itakpe mishap was not overloaded.

Opeifa made the clarification on Wednesday while fielding questions connected Channels Television’s ‘The Morning Brief’.

He was reacting to the incidental which occurred on Monday. Five persons died successful the accident.

“I wouldn’t privation to spell into thing now, adjacent if I person immoderate measurements yesterday. We bash discussions with radical connected board, we heard immoderate radical accidental they felt immoderate shaking oregon whatever.

“One happening I cognize is that the bid was not overloaded. Personally from Sunday after Salah, we’ve been having issues with such, sometimes implicit 200 radical volition travel to the bid stations and we volition not beryllium capable to prime them, due to the fact that there’s not capable abstraction to prime everybody.

“That corridor is 1 that we person been paying attraction to successful caller clip successful presumption of patronage, and the patronage is ...