Borno residents protest removal of train coaches by railway agency

Hundreds of residents stormed the Maiduguri Railway Terminus on Sunday to protest the removal of train coaches from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, to Jos for repairs by the

“At the peak of insurgency, the NRC came and took two of the coaches; now they are trying to take everything away. This is unacceptable,’’ he said. Yet another protester, Babagana Chiroma, said: “This is an economic sabotage of our state. They want to go and renovate the coaches and put them into use in another state.’’Addressing the protesters, Borno State’s deputy governor, Usman Kadafur, urged the protesters to be patient, assuring them that the government was already addressing the issue.

Mr Kadafur assured the protesters that the government would not allow the action to be undertaken without transparency. “This administration will not allow such action. We are representatives of the federal government in Borno. Police stormed the train station in Maiduguri to foil the suspected theft and arrested some “suspects’’.

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