Afrigather The Home of Representatives has mandated the federal authorities by way of the Nigerian Railway Company to supply measures to curb incessant lack of lives and destruction of properties in prepare mishaps.
The Reps additionally urged the Nigerian Security Investigation Bureau to analyze the causes of the varied prepare incidences.
These resolutions adopted the adoption of a movement of pressing public significance sponsored by Uyime Idem from Akwa-Ibom at plenary on Tuesday.
Transferring the movement, Idem mentioned in January 2023, a prepare accident was reported within the Kubwa axis of Abuja, which claimed the lifetime of Selimota Suleiman, a employees of the Nigerian Tv Authority.
He additionally mentioned on Thursday, March 9, 2023, a transferring prepare rammed right into a BRT bus in Lagos State, claiming about six lives and plenty of others injured.
“Notes that on March 28, 2022, an Abuja – Kaduna prepare was attacked, and plenty of Nigerians misplaced their lives whereas others have been both injured or kidnapped
“Additional notes {that a} Warri – Itakpe prepare derailed in Kogi forest, leaving not lower than 300 passengers stranded barely a month after about 20 passengers have been kidnapped from a prepare station in Igueben, Edo State.
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“Saddened that despite these unlucky tendencies, that are, because of the carelessness of some people, nobody has ever been held to account for the unlucky lack of lives,” the lawmaker said.
Idem expressed concern that these unlucky incidents are occurring fairly often as a result of not a lot appears to be completed to forestall the incidence.
Adopting the movement, the Home noticed a minute silence in honour of the casualties of the varied prepare mishaps
It mandated the related Home committees to make sure compliance and report again in three weeks for additional legislative motion.
