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An Abuja-bound prepare has derailed alongside the Abuja-Kaduna route on Wednesday morning, June 12, 2024.
That is the third time the identical incident can be occurring in two weeks – between Might 26 and June 12, 2024.
A Nigerian Rail Method Cooperation (NRC) employees who prefers anonymity confirmed the incident to the Guardian.
When requested if the issue had been rectified, the prepare employees replied, “We’re nonetheless engaged on it”.
Equally, a former senator representing Kaduna Central, Senator Shehu Sani hinted {that a} high Managing Director was on board whereas the incident occurred.
Kaduna Abuja Rail don’t have any respect for Democracy day by derailing with our in a position MD inside.Haba.
— Senator Shehu Sani (@ShehuSani) June 12, 2024
In the meantime, at about 11:47 am, an X consumer named Norbert Shialsuk stated they “have been fortunate it occurred after we obtained to Abuja. Think about this occurring within the bush.”
The NRC is but to talk on the incident as of the time of submitting this report.
In the meantime, the Home of Reps had on Friday, June 11 , 2024, invited the minister of transportation, to elucidate the explanations behind the repeated derailment of the Abuja-Kaduna prepare companies.
The minister, who was invited together with different related stakeholders within the railway sector, would face the Home Committee on land transportation.
They’re anticipated to proffer measures taken by them to avert additional reoccurrence of such unlucky incidents.
The Home directed an instantaneous investigation by way of the Home Committee on Land Transportation into the causes of those recurring derailments of the Abuja-Kaduna prepare companies to avert a nationwide calamity.
The committee is to report again to the Home inside 4 weeks for additional legislative motion.
These resolutions adopted the adoption of a movement of pressing significance titled, “An Pressing Have to Examine the Causes of the Recurring Derailment of Abuja-Kaduna Passengers Prepare which Skidded Twice within the Final Two Weeks with A whole lot of Passengers on Board” sponsored by Hon. Umar Shehu Ajilo.
The Home famous that rail transportation is presumed to be the most secure mode of transportation the world over.
It stated nonetheless, the latest pattern of recurring derailment of the Abuja-Kaduna Prepare companies has confirmed in any other case.
It stated the state of affairs which requires our collective concern.
The movement reads: “The Home is anxious that the Abuja-Kaduna prepare companies convey a major variety of passengers and items from Abuja to Kaduna and vice versa which performs an enormous financial and social position in Nigeria.
“The Home is nervous that the speed at which derailments happen alongside the Abuja-Kaduna rail line has turn into unnecessarily alarming with the latest derailment which occurred on Wednesday the fifth day of June, 2024, when a prepare travelling from Abuja to Kaduna derailed at Asha Station, leaving many passengers stranded within the Federal Capital territory, being the second of such unlucky occurrences simply inside the final two weeks.
“This Home remembers that on Might 26, an Abuja-bound prepare, on Sunday, derailed alongside the Abuja-Kaduna route, resulting in the passengers being stranded within the Jere space of Kaduna state.
“This Home should stand to the event by investigating these repeated incidents to make sure that the repeated rail derailment incidents don’t lead to a nationwide calamity.”
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