Hundreds of Osun indigenes on Saturday defied
morning downpour to enjoy free train ride
provided by their Governor Rauf Aregbesola for
Eid-El-Kabir celebration.
The train took off from Lagos for Oshogbo.
The Aregbesola-led government has been
offering the free train ride to Osun indigenes
every festive season in the past six years.
Some of the commuters commended the
governor for giving them the opportunity of going
home to see their loved ones.
A civil servant, Mr Tajudeen Olafare, who
boarded the train with his wife and three
children, said that it was his first time of
boarding a train.
“We have been here since 4a.m. from
Okokomaiko, waiting to board the train; it is
real,” Olafare said.
Another commuter, Mrs Oluwatoyin Ajao, said
that the free ride was a good initiative,
especially in a period of economic recession.
According to her, the gesture has given many
Osun indigenes the opportunity of spending
festive periods in their villages at little or no
cost.
Meanwhile, Mr Jerry Oche, the Lagos Railway
District Manager of Nigerian Railway Corporation,
said that the available train could not convey all
intending passengers on Saturday.
Oche said that some of the passengers had been
told to wait till Sunday since the train had a
maximum capacity.
Oche said: “We have two trains tomorrow but
today it is one; l advise that people should not
hang on the train because it is a long journey.
“People should cooperate with our checkers and
security agents. I have told our checkers and
security agents to be vigilant during the journey.”
The 10-coach train was filled with people, bags
of rice and rams.
The 2016 Eid-El-Kabir is slated for Sept. 12.


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Baba kabiru

Barka de sallah to seun and Mynd44

Good.

But aregbe is not a so good governor.

He failed to promote agriculture like his other clueless apc people.