The Managing Director of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) Fidet Okhiria, has said he can’t confirm that terrorists/bandits attacked the Kaduna-Abuja train.
Shehu Sani, a Senator who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th National Assembly who was one of the passenger on the train on Thursday had disclosed that the train he boarded ran a portion damaged by explosives used in attacking a Kaduna-Abuja train on Wednesday night.
According to him the bandits attacked the train between Dutse and Rijana stations and planted an explosive that damaged the rail track and also opened fire on the driver.
But speaking with newsmen Okhiria said the damaged part of the rail track was destroyed by suspected vandals.
“It’s true our rail track was damaged,” he said, adding that he couldn’t confirm if its a terrorist attack.
He said the track was destroyed by suspected vandals as vandalism of the NRC facilities have been on the increase in recent times.
“So we have issues with the track and we are fixing it. We are working to resume train services and by today’s (Thursday) evening, we should run if possible.
We operated a train from Kaduna to Abuja this morning (Thursday) but we had to suspend operations due to the damaged track until we fix it” he said
He said an investigation is currently being conducted to unravel what happened.
