Abdulfatai Buhari, chairman of the senate committee on land
transportation, has asked China to support Nigeria’s efforts to rescue the
train passengers abducted in Kaduna.
On March 28, a train on its way from Abuja to Kaduna was
attacked by gunmen in Kateri-Rijana area of Kaduna state.
The train was said to have been a few minutes away from the
Kaduna station when the incident occurred.
While eight people were killed, a number of other passengers
were abducted, but a few persons have been released by the attackers.
The China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) is
the company handling Nigeria’s railway projects.
Speaking on Wednesday when the joint senate and House of
Representatives committee on land transport visited the Obafemi Awolowo train
station in Ibadan, the Oyo capital, Buhari said if a Chinese was among those
abducted, China would have intervened.
“What effort is the Chinese government putting in place to
assist the Nigerian government in rescuing these people?” the senator asked.
“The Chinese government makes money from the many rail
projects that are being handled by the China Civil Engineering Construction
Company (CCECC) here in Nigeria. So, asking them to help us is not out of
place.
“If a Chinese national was among those people abducted, we
know that the Chinese government would have come to rescue him.”
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