Managing Director of Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) Engr. Fidet Okhira Tuesday disclosed in Abuja that he allows preferential treatment and favouritism in ticket sales.
Reacting to questions on alleged ticket racketeering and shortchanging of railway passengers, Okhira told participants at the ongoing maiden transport summit of Chartered Institute of Transport Administration in Abuja that he cannot pretend not giving tickets to favour some passengers.
“I am not a hypocrite, I cannot pretend, someone like Madam (referring to a guest) cannot say she wants to travel and I say ticket is finished or ask her to go and queue.
“I must find a way to provide ticket for her. I cannot hide behind a finger to say I don’t do it,,” he said .
He admitted that the Abuja-Kaduna route is over stretched and assured that more coaches will arrive in January 2020.
He also said the Warri to Itakpe rail service will commence in the first quarter of 2020 while rail passengers in the South South and South East areas of the country will enjoy travel at average speed of 120km per hour soon.
Okhira described the rail transport mode as faster, safer and easier to move wagons for persons with high volumes of cargoes instead of monitoring many trucks and drivers
On vandalism, he disclosed that over 5000 clips and 10,000 bolts and nuts have been replaced along the Lagos – Ibadan rail track due to vandals activities capable of causing fatal rail accidents.
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