Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) will soon commence the transportation of cattle across the country by rail. NRC Managing Director, Fidet Okhiria, disclosed this on Channels Television on Wednesday, July 10.
He said the movement of cows and other
goods would resume with the Warri-Itakpe route. The NRC, famous for passenger
traffic, had in 2017 suspended the movement of cattle by train following
technical hitches.
However, Okhiria said in one or two
months, herders would be able to move their cattle on the Warri-Itakpe train
services. Itakpe is a town in Kogi State in North Central Nigeria while Warri
is located in Delta State in the South-South geopolitical zone of the country.
He said the NRC would modernise the
movement of goods in the country “so that when they come by road from the
north, they can move them by rail to South-South Warri”.
Okhiria said the NRC has brought in
some wagons that can mobilise livestock and they are being assembled in the
Kajola area of Oyo State in the South-West.
“We’ve built 15 wagons for livestock
and maybe in the next month or two months, they would be deployed from Itakpe
to Warri to drive the economy,” the NRC boss stated.
He said investment in railways should
be for the social and economic benefits of the people and not profit-oriented
in naira and kobo.
“You are not developing
transportation because you want to make profit in terms of naira and kobo but
the profit will come indirectly if we can move goods and link cities'' he said
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