The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has decried incessant vandalism of equipment on its Eastern Corridors saying that the act hinders its operations in the region.

The corporation’s Regional District Manager (East), Mr Ola Adeeyinwo, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu.

According to Adeeyinwo, the activities of the vandals are denying the people in that part of the country the opportunity of enjoying affordable and traffic-jam free train services.

The manager said that due to the nefarious activities, the rail track between Aba-to-Port Harcourt was the only line now functioning.

We have recorded a lot of vandalism within Isiagu-Uzuakoli-Mbaeke-Umuhia sections and Emene-Ogui-Ogbete sections of the Eastern Corridors.

“In some places, a whole rail track line, which includes the rail slippers, clips, bolts and long iron bars are completely removed by the vandals,’’ he said.

Adeeyinwo added that the rate of vandalism had been overwhelming to the extent that the few police personnel attached to the corporation could no longer contend with the criminals.

The manager said that the vandals came in their numbers to carry out the act between midnight and 4 a.m. and most times they overwhelm the police personnel at the scene.

“We are calling for help from other security agencies to put to rest the evil act because it may stop train services completely in the Eastern Corridor,’’ he said.

He revealed that the property vandalised or stolen amounted to millions of dollars because most of them were imported.

NAN recalls that recently the Nigerian Railway Police Command in Enugu arrested 14 persons in connection with alleged vandalism and theft of property belonging to the corporation.

The suspects included two policemen, who were allegedly aiding and shielding the suspects.

They were allegedly caught with irons for rail brake control, rail wagon parts, rail wagon wheels, clips of rail slippers, rail slippers, amoured rail doors, sheets of zinc and rail cables.

The command said an SUV, five tricycles, two mini-buses, two trucks, four gas cylinders and a big cutter were recovered from the suspects.



http://sunnewsonline.com/nrc-decries-incessant-vandalism-of-rail-tracks-on-eastern-corridor/

Hhhmmm....

The East is their own enemy.

This news is not surprising.

Yambee:
The East is their own enemy.

This news is not surprising.

pls shut up fr once ad stop been a pussi

Stealing and vandalism will soon become a tribal thing limited only to the east?
This Mr. Adeenyiwo or whatever he calls himself should have known better as a public official, who had some type of education- I hope.

We know it's vandals. That make fg to abandon second Niger bridge. The rehabilitation of enugu International Airport.
The same vandal is the reason for suspending of air Nigeria and all the failures of this present government.

When biafra become free just two years we will surprise the whole world.

God bless nnamdi kanu

gurnam:


Instead of you to condemn the glaring criminality to FG infrastructure in your region, you are here writing bumbum.
You are making it to sound as if what happened is none of your business or it’s perfectly normal for criminals to steal government properties

Sick peoples !! Tuehh!!!

I loathe and condemn criminality everywhere regardless of tribe, region, or whatever. But I won't gloat here and have your likes consistently insult my region like yours is any better. The country is a collective mess because the corrupt system is an endemic in itself that has permeated every fabric, policy, psyche, and structure of the people and the country. My point is don't come here with the "holier than thou" bullshit when you have more filth to worry about in your enclave, vandalism of property abounds in every region, so don't make it an exclusive problem of just the East

BabaRamota1980:
Hhhmmm....

I’m curious. Does Mr Osewa pay you for all these “Ibo” this and that stories or is this your little charitable contribution to increasing his page views?

Igbo Amaka, thieves, criminals, illiterates,

reluctant to build infrastructures in the southeast because of a few hungry vandals,.. but eager to take huge loans in billions of dollars to rebuild northeast that are deliberately and actively destroying everything...
,government Infrastructures, govt personnel, private infrastructures and personnel, volunteers,expatriates,worship centres, learning centres, etc

And here we have thè usual supporters of evil and stark injustice sweating hard to justify...

Curlieweed:


I’m curious. Does Mr Osewa pay you for all these “Ibo” this and that stories or is this your little charitable contribution to increasing his page views?

My brother, help me ask the headslamming machine. He is probably bitter o for missing out being created from the great Igbo tribe.

Typical yeroba moozlem.

This is simply gibberish...

Best to keep quiet most times when there's nothing reasonable to say....

Yambee:
The East is their own enemy.

This news is not surprising.

Really

These yorubas have started again.
so the Eastern rail corridor that Buhari abandoned while building a railway line to Niger republic is because of vandals.
so why rebuild the NE being destroyed by terrorists?
this is exactly what one time Yoruba minister of works did when everyone was complaining the poor state of FG roads in the SE,the idiots summoned and was querying the igbos in the ministry as is they are the ones responsible for the award of contracts.

ibedun:
Igbo Amaka, thieves, criminals, illiterates,

ibgedun when will you learn?

Yoruba man don't fail

ibedun:
Igbo Amaka, thieves, criminals, illiterates,

Afonja ajoka. Skull miners, ritualists, dirty pigs.

This Yoruba man and his senseless talk.

So no vandals in the West.?


How come those vandals don't tamper with oil & Gas extraction by the FG in the East.?

conductor120:

My brother, help me ask the headslamming machine. He is probably bitter o for missing out being created from the great Igbo tribe.

Typical yeroba moozlem.

No wonder!

You know that the Chinese government now recognizes head slamming as a mental disease.

They’re currently treating about a million moozlems in giant “re-education camps”.

Rickyzagy:
We know it's vandals. That make fg to abandon second Niger bridge. The rehabilitation of enugu International Airport.
The same vandal is the reason for suspending of air Nigeria and all the failures of this present government.

When biafra become free just two years we will surprise the whole world.

God bless nnamdi kanu

Oga. How many times are they going to rehabilitate or refurbish the Enugu "International" Airport?

Your sister Stella collected the money and gave you guys an airport cum seaport. Yet you still want the Fg to sink another billion into that edifice?

Better wait until you get Biafra.

Curlieweed:


I’m curious. Does Mr Osewa pay you for all these “Ibo” this and that stories or is this your little charitable contribution to increasing his page views?

Do not derail this thread. Focus on topic, im not the topic of discussion.

Ioannes:


Oga. How many times are they going to rehabilitate or refurbish the Enugu "International" Airport?

Your sister Stella collected the money and gave you guys an airport cum seaport. Yet you still want the Fg to sink another billion into that edifice?

Better wait until you get Biafra.

Pigiyeasteerners amaka...
Vandals amaka...