NRC raises alarm over incessant attacks on train along Abuja-Kaduna highway

Following a caller incidental successful which suspected villagers pelted a moving bid with stones on the Abuja-Kaduna highway, the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has raised caller concerns implicit escalating attacks connected its bid operations obstruction corridor.

Around kilometre 177 connected the Abuja-Kaduna highway, the Corporation explained that the onslaught connected the bid took spot wherever a radical of unidentified persons gathered on the obstruction way and hurled stones astatine a passing train, damaging the windscreen of the pb locomotive.

Callistus Unyimadu, the NRC spokesman, successful a statement, stated that the improvement is alarming, saying that akin incidents person been recorded successful the past 2 weeks, including Gidan Busa/Sarki Gora Village successful Kakau District, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

According to the statement, “About six attacks person been documented on the corridor wrong this period, posing important threats to rider safety, railway personnel, and captious infrastructure.”

The connection besides explained that the repeated acts are not lone unsafe but magnitude to economical sabotage susceptible of disrupting nationalist proscription and undermining authorities investments successful the railway sector.

The NRC observed that bid services person continued unde...