The Director-General of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, Kayode Opeifa, has said the train involved in the Warri-Itakpe accident was not overloaded.
Opeifa made the clarification on Wednesday while fielding questions on Channels Television’s ‘The Morning Brief’.
He was reacting to the incident which occurred on Monday. Five persons died in the accident.
“I wouldn’t want to go into anything now, even if I have some measurements yesterday. We do discussions with people on board, we heard some people say they felt some shaking or whatever.
“One thing I know is that the train was not overloaded. Personally from Sunday after Salah, we’ve been having issues with such, sometimes over 200 people will come to the train stations and we will not be able to pick them, because there’s not enough space to pick everybody.
“That corridor is one that we have been paying attention to in recent time in terms of patronage, and the patronage is huge. People come as far as from Abuja, and they go as far as Bayelsa, Rivers, Delta and Edo states,” he said.
