The Federal Ministry of Transportation has disclosed that the Abuja-Kaduna train services will commence operations ‘soon’.
This was disclosed by the Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Sambo, while briefing newsmen in Abuja. This is coming barely 48 hours after the 23 remaining victims were released by the terrorists.
Recall that the terrorists had attacked Abuja-Kaduna train passengers on March 28, this year, kidnapping 168 passengers and killing eight passengers. The release of the victims has been in batches since then, with the last 23 being the last to be released.
Reacting to previous questions as to when the train services would resume operations, the minister said it would have been so insensitive to resume operations knowing full well that both the victims and their relatives were going through trauma.
Sambo said in order to resume train services, certain security measures had to be put in place to forestall recurrence, noting that these measures included long and short-term plans.
