Hundred of passengers on Abuja/Kaduna train were Monday morning stranded in Dutse, Kaduna, as the train developed faults a few minutes into the journey.
Five minutes after the train departed the Rigasa Station, in Kaduna, it developed a mechanical fault, according to a report by Nigerian Xpress.
Twice, the train stopped before getting to Dutse, where it finally broke down.
Midat Joseph, an Assistant National Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), who was one of the passengers, said the train developed fault around 7:00am.
Read him: “I left my house as early as 5:am to join the 6:40a.m. train but unfortunately I have been trapped here in this forest.”
“This is not the first time I will be experiencing this mess,” he said.
Another passenger said he had similar experience on Saturday, saying they spent six hours to get to Abuja.
“This is unfortunate. On Saturday, we spent five hours from Abuja to Kaduna. We left Abuja 6:pm but we did not get to Kaduna until 11:00pm,” he said.
An engineer of the NRC, who addressed the passengers, told them that it would take them two hours to fix the train.
“We are very sorry, the locomotive is faulty. We have contacted the Idu Train Station for another locomotive. It would take them two hours to be here, “ he said. (NigerianXpress)
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