Updated: NRC suspends workers collecting cash from passengers in viral video

Updated: NRC suspends workers collecting cash from passengers in viral video

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) says it has suspended some of its workers seen in a viral video collecting cash from passengers onboard a Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge train.

The video had generated negative reactions from the public online.

In a statement signed on Wednesday by the corporation’s Deputy Director, Public Relations, Yakub Mahmood, the NRC condemned the actions of the workers.

It said, ‘This misconduct is regrettable and unacceptable as it negates the tenets and norms of the corporation.

“The corporation has therefore placed the identified erring officers on immediate suspension pending the outcome of the in-depth investigation already ongoing by the management committee set up to look into the issue.”

Part of the statement also read, “Following a viral video that has been trending on various social media platforms, vividly showing railway workers negotiating with our esteemed passengers onboard Lagos-Ibadan Train Service (LITS) to pay without obtaining official boarding tickets, the general public is invited to note that the NRC seriously condemns such acts of misconduct which is a flagrant disobedience to laid down rules and utter betrayal of the confidence reposed in such workers, especially at this time that the Federal Government is making all efforts to revitalizing and modernizing the corporation.”