NRC decries high rate of rail tracks vandalism in Enugu

NRC decries high rate of rail tracks vandalism in Enugu

[html]Mr Olusoji Osidipe, NRC Railway District Manager (East) revealed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Friday.
   
   
   
       
       
           
               
                   

Mr Olusoji Osidipe, NRC Railway District Manager (East) revealed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Friday.

               
           
               
                   

Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has decried high rate of theft and vandalism of rail tracks and railway components within Enugu State.

               
           
               
                   

Mr Olusoji Osidipe, NRC Railway District Manager (East) revealed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Friday.

               
           
               
                   

Osidipe noted that the high vandalism and theft of railway track and other component was one of the major challenges hindering locomotive services within the Enugu axis of the Eastern corridors of the railway.

               
           
               
                   

He said locomotive (train) service on Aba-Port Harcourt axis of the corridor had been operational and relatively steady, adding that it had been helpful to traders and farmers within that axis.

               
           
               
                   

The manager said that the NRC through the help of the Nigeria Police and Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) had launched full scale crack down on vandals and robbers.

               
           
               
                   

According to him, within the last six months since I took over as manager of this eastern corridor, we have caught and imprisoned