STRUCTURAL DEFECTS IDENTIFIED IN NIGERIAN RAILWAY PROJECT

STRUCTURAL DEFECTS IDENTIFIED IN

 NIGERIAN RAILWAY PROJECT

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU ,LAGOS,NIGERIA

The News office Desk of the E.N.M.Paedia Express Multimedia Group of Lagos,Nigeria has being urged to promote an agenda that will lead to a total overhaul of The Nigerian Railtrack  industry due to its several years of institutional decay or rot..

In an exclusive chat with The E.N.M.Paedia Express Multimedia Group of Lagos,Nigeria ,an impeccable source who had plied the Oshodi to Agege  route by railways some times in 2018 has returned a verdict of poor performance on the Nigerian Railway Corporation..

The source pointed out that on the day she had used a train to get home after closing from work because she could not get a taxi at Nine o Clock in the evening ,but she lived to regret her decisions much later on..

she described the average Nigerian train as a torture chamber due to the intense heat that is generated by human traffic after  overcrowding.

She speak./ when we got to where we entered the train ,i had thought we were not many until  the train came up and a lot of people came up from all nooks and crannies into the train/

\inside the train was hell for my daughter and i ,do you know that my daughter fainted and people had to pour water on her to help me revive her back to life after she lost consciousness in the train\

\in the process we lost the power bank of her mobile phone and it was some good samaritan that gave us her mobile phone later on which we almost lost in transit due to the commotion that took place inside the train /

/The people who work in the train collect their money from passengers like they do in the road commercial bus platforms though in all fairness some people might have brought their tickets at Iddo Terminus /

/There was this man beside us that had a running battle with the rail handlers ,he had to remove his cloths as sweat dripped all over him like water ,i make bold to say that if a man or a woman wishes

to die and does not know how to go about it then he should go and enter a train in Nigeria/

/It is so dirty and unkempt with the coaches looking so very old and yet they still pack people to stand as passengers even in the toilet compartment |The Source lamented..

The source then warned that the much expected success of The Nigerian Railways might not be attained if the culture of using old equipments in the laying down of rail tracks as opposed to new rail tracks is not jettisoned immediately.

The source also insisted reforms that should lead to human traffic not being allowed to climb ,sleep nor rest on top  of coaches should also either be introduced or improved upon.

Picture credit /Google /Nigerian Railways