There was very low patronage of railway services along Abuja-Kaduna and vice versa as commuters shunned train ride after the Nigerian Railway Corporation resumed operations on the route on Saturday.
The Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC on Saturday resumed services on the route two days after it suspended operations following an explosion that rocked a section of the rail track on Wednesday night.
The following day, Thursday, another train almost suffered a derailment at the Rijanna area of Kaduna due to an explosion on the rail line, leading to NRC suspension of operations.
But normal operations resumed at the Rigasa train station in Kaduna on Saturday after the repair of the damaged portion of the track.
It was however observed that there was a low turnout of passengers on the route despite the heavy deployment of more security forces on the train.
Passengers called for more security officials to be deployed along the route to reassure commuters which was responded to by the authorities.
Yet, commuter confidence is yet to be restored as can be seen by the few number of people that travelled by train Saturday.