Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC, has reacted to the report that passengers on a train travelling from Ibadan, Oyo State, to Lagos State, were stranded when the train allegedly ran out of fuel on Thursday around 11am.
WITHIN NIGERIA had earlier reported that a Facebook user, Samuel Ajao, who disclosed this stated that he hears of hoodlums sabotaging trips by vandalizing rail tracks but train running out of fuel is unthinkable.
A Twitter user, King Isaiah Obadare, also stated that, “Boarded train from Ibadan to Lagos. We’re stuck in the forest with unknown Chinese men. They said fuel finished. What a beautiful country, Nigeria.”
Some pictures later posted by Obadare showed the crew members bringing fuel to refill the train.
In a follow-up tweet, Obadare, while showing a video where the train was being refuelled along the rail track, said, “Refuelling my country’s train.”
However, the Nigeria Railway Corporation denied that the train stopped over fuel shortage, describing it as a false narrative.
The spokesperson for the NRC, Mahmoud Yakubu, said, “That news is completely fake; how will fuel get exhausted in a locomotive? Our services have not been interrupted, train services continue, forget about train stoppage or not, the most important thing is that train services continue. Our train is working perfectly.”
However, he failed to state why the train stopped along the rail track.
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