The police in Lagos have arrested 2 people for allegedly vandalising railway tracks in the city.
The suspects were reportedly arrested on Monday morning by the Ijora Badia Division of the Lagos State command while conveying the iron tracks in their vehicle.
SP Benjamin Hundeyin, Lagos Command’s spokesman, confirmed the arrest in a statement issued via his Twitter handle on Monday.
He wrote, “At about 1am today, a patrol team from Ijora Badia Division intercepted a Mitsubishi Lancer car conveying vandalised railway tracks.
“The two occupants of the vehicle have been arrested. Investigation is ongoing.”
In February 2022, passengers were stranded as a result of activities of hoodlums on the rail track of the Lagos-Ibadan rail line.
The hoodlums had then removed some of the components of the rail line, forcing the train to stop.
A train, which was said to have departed the Obafemi Awolowo Train Station, Ibadan, Oyo State, at 8:30am on Saturday was stopped somewhere before Funmilayo Ransom Kuti at the Papalanto area due to the vandals’ activities.
The 157 kilometres Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge railway started commercial operations in September 2020.
There had been a similar incident in January 2022 when a train was forced to stop for about 35 minutes before the journey later continued.
The activities of railway vandals have increased exponentially have increased in the last decade. This resulted in the Eastern rail corridor being completely liquidated. With tracks completely vandalised it became impossible to reactivate the Eastern corridor.
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