Vandals have begun to create problems for the Federal Government over the Lagos-Ibadan railway it is just unveiling.
They are stealing clips and bolts from it, with the government saying it had had to be spewing money on their replacement.
The Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, Fidet Okhiria, said 5,000 clips and 10,000 bolts as well as knots had been replaced along the rail track.
He said, “You can’t imagine that between Lagos and Ibadan, we have replaced over 5,000 clips and close to 10,000 bolts and nuts on the track and it is not a good thing at all. “Without those things on the tracks, accidents can occur.
“We know the volume of passengers on a train. So vandalism of rail infrastructure has to stop.”
Okhiria added that government would still go ahead to extend the Lagos-Ibadan line to Kano in three years.”
