The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) says it will soon
resume transportation of livestock from north to south.
The service was suspended in 2017 due to technical glitches.
Fidet Okhiria, managing director of the NRC, disclosed the
planned resumption of the service on Wednesday when he appeared on ‘Morning
Brief,’ a Channels TV programme.
Okhiria said the transportation of livestock and goods would
recommence via the Warri-Itakpe route.
On Tuesday, President Bola Tinubu hinted at the possibility
of creating a ministry of livestock development.
Okhiria 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”.
The MD added that the NRC has “brought in some wagons that
can mobilise livestock and they are being assembled in the Kajola area of Oyo
in the south-west”.
He said railway investments should prioritise people’s wellbeing
over profit for indirect economic benefits.
“We’ve built 15 wagons for livestock and maybe in the next
month or two, they would be deployed from Itakpe to Warri to drive the
economy,” he said.
“You are not developing transportation because you want to
make a profit in terms of naira and kobo, but the profit will come indirectly
if we can move goods and link cities.”
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