The Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) on Monday extended its Ogun to Lagos Mass Transit Services to Kajola after Ijoko Terminus in Ogun.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Naija247news.com reports that the corporation uses four stocks to run its daily services from Agbado and Ijoko in the morning to Lagos and back in the evening.
All the four services terminated in Ijoko in the evening, leaving other passengers going beyond Ijoko to go by road to their various destinations.
Two of the four services are now extended to Kajola in the evening leaving the other two to terminate in Ijoko for the next day services.
Naija247news.com reports that the extension had further worsened the congestion on the ever-crowded trains.
Mr Ademuyiwa Adekanmbi, the Corporation’s District Public Relation Officer (DPRO), told NAN that the extension would not attract any extra fares for now.
“We will still charge the N150 fare, the extension for now is to take our services beyond Ijoko and to decongest Ijoko station because our daily services is increasing,’’ Adekanmbi said.
According to him, the corporation is also planning to reopen its Idogo Station also in Ogun to further expand the services of the corporation.
He said that Kajola and Idoko Stations were closed for several years but that the corporation decided to reopen them gradually to extend its services to the grassroots.
NAN reports that the ever teeming passengers, nonetheless, commended the management of the corporation for the extension, saying it would reduce the sufferings of passengers going beyond Ijoko.
They also urged the management to increase its stocks from four to six to ease the congestion already caused by the extension.
Many of the passengers, who on Monday joined the train from Kajola to Lagos, urged the management to extend the daily services further to Ifo and perhaps Lafenwa in Ogun.
Mrs Franca Haruna, a public servant in Lagos, who lives in Kajola, said that before she usually woke up at 4.00 a.m. to enter public transport to Ijoko to meet the train that usually leave for Lagos at 5.40 a.m.
Mr Iyiola Agunbiade, a trader at Mushin in Lagos leaving at Kajola, said that before he usually go to Lagos by rail on Monday and remained in Mushin till Friday when he would go back also by rail.
Agunbiade said that with the extension, he would be able to go and come back daily.
