{"id":2962,"date":"2022-04-22T19:51:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T19:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/?p=2962"},"modified":"2022-04-22T19:51:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T19:51:23","slug":"itakpe-ajaokuta-train-station-passengers-protest-hike-in-fares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/itakpe-ajaokuta-train-station-passengers-protest-hike-in-fares\/","title":{"rendered":"Itakpe-Ajaokuta Train Station: Passengers Protest Hike in Fares\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">As operators hoard, increase fares by 100%, passengers traveling with the train service at Itapke Ajaokuta train Station of the Nigerian Railway Corporation in Kogi State have protested the outrageous fare charged by the operators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Kogi Flame reported that the passengers in their numbers were seen lamenting that the management and staffers of the Itapke station aside hoarding the tickets, unilaterally increased the Fares.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">As at Thursday, passengers traveling to Delta were made to pay N3000 but to the surprise of the passengers on Friday, the operators hiked the fares to N5500.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The operators according to the passengers who spoke with the newsmen said they got to the train station only to be told that the tickets have been exhausted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">But upon mounting pressures and seeing the desperateness of the passengers, the operators offered the tickets to the passengers at the cost of N5500 for a journey that was a little above N2700 in the past.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">According to Sunday James and Ukpewe Ogienebiko, prospective passengers to Warri who paid the increased fares lamented that such malpractices by the operators must be stopped so as not to erode the plans by President Mohammadu Buhari in making train transportation an alternative means of transport.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The operators of the train station who could not give any reason for the increase, turned deaf ears to the questions of the passengers, insisting that they are acting on instructions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">However, all efforts by our correspondent to speak with the Head of the Itapke train Station or those connected with the sales of the ticket on why the sudden rise in fares proved abortive as they said they were on instruction not to speak with Journalists.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">As at press time many of the passengers were left stranded on what to do, with many seen returning to their homes or travel by other means to their destination.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As operators hoard, increase fares by 100%, passengers traveling with the train service at Itapke Ajaokuta train Station&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[92,205],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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