ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Nigerian Railway Corporation has revealed that train operations from Port Harcourt to Aba are set to begin soon, following the successful rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri Eastern-Narrow-Gauge Railway.
Freeborn Okhoria, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Railway Corporation, conveyed this information during an inspection of the project site in Port Harcourt.
Okhoria said, “The Ministry and the NRC have been under pressure to deliver this so that the operations can start. They are working hard to ensure that very soon the operations will start.
“The signaling communication is going to be in place. When we leave here we are going to meet and map out the timeline when those things will be delivered.
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“The point machines are going to be fixed where necessary. We will work together to ensure that we deliver them.”
Okhoria emphasized the corporation’s commitment to ensuring the smooth implementation of operations, with plans to extend the service to Umuahia and Enugu after its initial launch.
“Very soon we will start enjoying the train ride from Port Harcourt to Aba while even looking at extending to Umuahia and Enugu.
“We are looking at days, at most months, because if you don’t start running on this track, you leave it, it will go bad and vandals may take possession.
‘‘So we are now going to meet, and work out the possible plan because we have to synchronise with the operation to make sure that when they put it, it is not going to be vandalized,” he said.