The alarm was raised in a memo 17 months after an attack on the train service, which left many dead and injured.
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The Nigerian Railway Corporation has apologised to passengers for the delay in rendering train services to passengers along the Abuja-Kaduna…
The group’s Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, made the request in a statement he issued Friday in Abuja.
Amaechi gave the directive after inspecting repairs on the rail tracks between Rijana and Dutse along the route on Friday.
Pascal Nnorli, Manager, Abuja-Kaduna train service, told newsmen that the corporation has put measures in place to ensure passengers obeyed all COVID-19 guidelines on the trains.
Amaechi disclosed this while test running the new coaches recently deployed on the route on Saturday.
Nigerian Railway Corporation on Friday said that over 4,000 passengers travelled out of the Federal Capital Territory in the last two days by train.
The minister stated this at the Idu train terminal, Abuja, shortly after alighting from the train which he boarded from Rigasa terminal in Kaduna.
They made the call in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria at the Rigasa Train station in Kaduna on Friday.
The Managing Director of NAN, Bayo Onanuga, and the Editor-in-Chief of NAN, Ado Lawal, were also on board.
NAN recalls that the $1.46 billion Abuja-Kaduna train service was inaugurated on July 26 by President Muhammadu Buhari