The Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) has reacted to the reports which surfaced online following the sudden stoppage of a Lagos-Ibadan train during its journey yesterday, denying that the train stopped due to fuel shortage.
According to the Spokesperson for the Corporation, Mahmoud Yakubu, the circulated reason for the said stoppage was a false narrative.
He said, “That news is completely fake; how will fuel get exhausted in a locomotive? Our services have not been interrupted, train services continue, forget about train stoppage or not, the most important thing is that train services continue. Our train is working perfectly.”
Recall that oyoaffairs.net had yesterday reported that passengers on a train travelling from Ibadan, Oyo state to Lagos state, were reportedly stranded when it ran out of fuel.
Some Twitter users who were aboard had shared videos and pictures of the train which stopped midway journey amidst forest.
In a follow-up tweet, one King Isaiah Obadare, while showing a video where the train was being refuelled along the rail track, said, help did not come until about one hour later.
He reported that no engineer was aboard the train hence, they had to wait around the rail track until the engineers/technicians came.
Yakubu however failed to state why the train stopped along the rail track.
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