Lagos train tragedy: Jandor urges govt to provide barriers at railway crossing

UGO AMADI

…Prevented from visiting victims at general hospital

The Governorship Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Dr. Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran aka Jandor has tasked the state government on the need to provide barriers at roads leading to rail lines to prevent accidents.

Jandor stated this during a visit to PWD, Ikeja, Lagos, where a Lagos State Government staff bus had a head-on-collision with a moving train causing the death of two passengers, while many were injured.

The Governorship Candidate, who was later denied entry into the Ikeja General Hospital to see the victims of the incident, described the train incident as sad, and unbecoming of a cosmopolitan state like Lagos.

“The incident is so sad. I think it’s about time we began to have barriers that would stop vehicles when trains are coming.

“This is a kind of responsibility for the government. We cannot continue like this, there should be a barrier on the rail line, when trains are coming.

“I’m sure we are going to get it right, I will be going to the hospital to see the victims so that we know how to provide succuor to them.

“This is getting too much, we saw the fire incident that occurred in a market in Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government yesterday and I would be going there too to see the level of damages.

“We will get it right as a government. We should prevent vehicles from passing, when trains are coming,” he said.

Recall that no fewer then two staff of Lagos State Government were reported dead and many others sustained varying degrees of injuries when a staff bus and a commercial train had head-on collision along Agege motor road in Lagos State.

The accident was said to have occurred on Thursday morning around PWD bus stop when the bus was about to cross the rail track when it collided with the train at the location.