Management of Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has informed the public that Mass Transit Train Services (MTTS) in Lagos will not resume now despite the state government directive and new transportation guidelines that will be effective Monday, 4 May 2020.
The Lagos Railway District Manager, Mr. Jerry Oche, who made this announcement through an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday, 4 May 2020, in Lagos, said the corporation would concentrate on Apapa freight shuttles alone.
Oche said it would be difficult to guide people on how to maintain social distancing at the railway stations and onboard trains.
According to him, he said the corporation will resume work, but train services would be limited to freight shuttle from Apapa to Iddo, Apapa to Ebutte-Metta, and others.
The NRC boss said: “As directed by the Federal Government, we will resume on May 4 like every other agency but our emphasis, for now, is going to be on Apapa freight shuttle.
“Don’t forget that if we have to do the MTTS, there are a lot of measures to be put in place. The social distancing is there, the enforcement is there and we know how porous our stations are.
“It is going to be very difficult and we don’t want to go in that line now.
“So, what we intend to do is to deploy our manpower, allowed by the government to resume work, for the freight shuttle services,” he said.
“It is not everybody that is resuming, it is just for those on level 14 and above. We don’t want to risk anybody’s life.
“For freight shuttle, we don’t need checkers, we just need drivers. We can manage that one.
“The freight shuttle is a shorter distance, it is just Apapa to EBJ and Iddo as the case may be. All our emphasis is going to be on freight shuttles.”
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