The Minister of Transportation, Sa’idu Ahmed Alkali, has stated that the damaged portions of the Abuja-Kaduna tracks will be restored in the next ten days.
Recall that some portions of the rail tracks and coaches were damaged last Tuesday, after a Kaduna-bound train derailed at Asham station.
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618 persons were on board, comprising 583 passengers, 15 NRC crew members, one medical personnel, eight cleaners and 11 catering staff.
Seven passengers sustained varying degrees of injury in the accident.
The Minister, on Monday, after an inspection of the accident scene, commended security personnel and other stakeholders for their efforts in ensuring the safety of passengers, workers and rail infrastructures in the ongoing operations to restore the damaged tracks and coaches.
He stated that the staff of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NEC) have been working day and night to ensure that the clearing and repairing of the damaged tracks are done at the earliest possible time
“At the time the accident occurred, the locomotive was carrying eight coaches. We have successfully moved four out of the place, and we are trying to fix the infrastructure so that we have a bigger crane, so that we can move the coaches and all the locomotives that are on the site.
“Insha Allah, in the next 48 hours, we will be able to move all of them out of the site, and after that, if we don’t have weather challenges, in the next 10 days, we are going to restore the line,” the minister explained.
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