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The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has finally opened up over the mobile police (MOPOL) officer who slumped and died onboard a train enroute Kaduna to Abuja.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) gathers that the MOPOL attached to the Abuja-Kaduna Train Service (AKTS) died last Thursday after allegedly developing chest pain.
Managing Director of NRC, Mr Fidet Okhiria denied there was no medical personnel onboard the train to provide emergency support for the police officer.
Okhiria stressed one of the organisation’s medical personnel, assisted by another, tried unsuccessfully to revive the policeman.
In a statement in Lagos on Tuesday, the NRC MD also dismissed allegations that the corporation had no medical facilities on board its trains.
Okhiria debunked insinuations that inadequate attention, allegedly due to lack of NRC medical personnel onboard the train, led to the death of the police officer.
He noted that NRC trains have well trained medical personnel and equipped medical cubicle to attend to any emergency health challenges of passengers.
He gave the name of the medical staff on duty on the train on which the incident occured as Mariam Abdulai.
Okhiria said that Abdulai was assisted by a good samaritan medical practitioner that happened to be a passenger on board to revive the ailing cop, but it was in futility.
“The management of the NRC expresses its heartfelt condolence to the bereaved family of the late Police Insp. Name But Selbol, who was escort on duty in Abuja–Kaduna Train service on that fateful day,” he said.