The Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) says it has fired several staff who were discovered to be involved in ticket racketeering while others with lesser offences have been demoted.
Mr Fidet Okhiria, Managing Director of the NRC, stated this on Wednesday, Nov. 22, during an interactive session organized by the House of Representatives Committee on Finance on the 2024-2026 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF/FSP).
He was responding to a question from the chairman of the committee, Hon. James Abiodun Faleke, that “Social media clips show how your staffers are engaging in ticket racketeering.”
Okhiria said: “This is true, and the solution to that is e-ticketing, and the government has approved that.
He said the corporation was working with the security agencies to arrest the menace, adding that many of the staff involved in the dastard act had been sacked, and some had been demoted depending on the offence they committed.
However, the office of the Accountant General for the Federation expressed concern that the NRC only remitted N345 million in revenue to government coffers for 2023, adding that the remittances covered January to September.
Faleke, however, expressed worry about the revenue generated, adding that “our concern is that if we expect so much revenue from NRC and we aren’t getting it, then there is a problem.
“I think we should take the decision that the railway should self-fund and take care of their costs and remit to the government the surplus.”
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I think they deserve what they got,its high time people takes whatever they do very serious,Nigeria people don’t want to work,people should be serious with their jobs,jobs should be given to those who deserve it and ready to work
Wahala Promax,Our POLITICIANS Looth Public funds in Billions,they are Aggrandised to the Next Positions in Office for a New Administration,Our train workers Buy Lunch with ticket Money,the whole Internet is Buzzing.Our LEADERS are even Making the whole corruption thing look like a NORMAL thing,how much more the men at the grass root,there is PROBLEM.May God Help us.
Yes because it is said chicks eat what they see her hen’s beak. We do illegal what we see our politicians do wrong in our country. They loot our rich resources to destroy our Nigerian blessings. What a difference if NRC officials sack some staffers for stealing money through tickets they help to sell it. Hard time or hunger or poor salary or irregular salary encourage staffers do it illegal.
Why will anyone blame them when we see what people in governance stealing and nothing is done to punish them?
All of them should have been sacked, and not some person’s.
Corruption everywhere. To sell tickets, they are also doing another business.
Nigeria which way.
Wahala no dey stop for this country because if se dey paid him well he no go dey try chop some money wey no be he own
This won nor go pass Nigeria train how Nigeria train go the be like this Nigeria try Live modern Life because their sense they do use am sook garri