The contentious evacuation of train coaches out of the state has prompted people of Maiduguri’s Goidamgari and Railway Terminus general area to go to the streets in protest.
As a result, Borno State government, led by governor Babagana Zulum, on Sunday lent its support to the protest.
Earlier, a drama had ensued when some trucks at the weekend stormed the Railway Station and loaded quite a number of coaches, before Police authorities arrested six persons, and deflated the tyres of the trucks, even as the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) authorities in Abuja issued a statement that the coaches were to be evacuated to Jos, Plateau State for official overhauling
