Travelers travelling from Kano to Lagos on the Nigerian Railway Corporation’s train service were reportedly said to be stranded at the middle of nowhere at a bush as the train breaks down.
A Twitter user who is identified as Yomi shared the video as he cried out that the train he boarded on Monday morning from Kano to Lagos got stuck in the middle of nowhere and no effort had been made to rescue them by the Nigerian Railway Corporation.
According to the Twitter user, they left Kano on January 31, at exactly 9am but developed a mechanic problem few kilometers to Zaria, Kaduna State and accused the Nigerian Railway Corporation of abandoning them for almost 40 hours.
He said:
“Nigerian railway cooperation(sic), we boarded since yesterday 31st January at exactly 9, o clock from Kano heading to Lagos and till now we haven’t reach Zaria, they’ve abandoned us inside the bush for almost 18hours, imagine who is afraid of travelling through road becoz(sic) of kidnapping.”
He posted the video around 10:25pm on Tuesday.
In the video he said;
“For almost twenty-fours now, we are stuck in the middle of nowhere. See bush all around. See where people are standing. I don’t even know what to do now. We are stuck in the middle of nowhere. You guys need to solve this problem as soon as possible.”
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