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‘Rooftop train riders to pay N100,000 fine soon’

By Editor
14 November 2016   |   12:02 am
The Lagos District Manager, Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr. Jerry Oche, has said the corporation would soon increase the fine of rooftop riders to N100,000.
Nigeria Railway Corporation

Nigeria Railway Corporation

The Lagos District Manager, Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr. Jerry Oche, has said the corporation would soon increase the fine of rooftop riders to N100,000.

He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Lagos that the fine was not meant to generate revenue but to discourage people from riding at the rooftop of the train.

He said miscreants had formed the habit of riding on top of the train and causing mayhem to innocent passengers, making train ride insecure.

He added that 36 persons were charged to court on Wednesday, November 9, out of the 105 suspected roof top riders arrested recently.The district manager said that the suspects were made to pay N25,000 fine, which the NRC would later increase to N50,000 and N100,000 to deter them from such illegal act.

He added that “the fine is just a way to discourage people from riding on the roof top of the train.“We have charged 36 out of over 100 suspects to court recently and the clampdown will continue.”

Oche explained that the hoodlums were arrested by a combined team of Railway Police, the Lagos State Police Command, the NRC Task Force and Man-O-War personnel.

According to him, the miscreants had constituted a nuisance to the corporation’s mass transit shuttle service in Lagos and Ogun states, causing harm and injuries to innocent passengers.

The manager said that the raids would continue and the corporation would increase its police posts and security personnel to ensure the safety of passengers and NRC personnel on the trains.

He added that the safety and security of passengers was paramount to the corporation.NAN reports that hoodlums caused mayhem at the Agege station on November 1 and the development led to reprisal attacks from the people, which affected the operations of the corporation.

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