Minister of transportation Rotimi Amaechi did not ask Nigerians to contribute to the treatment of victims of the recent Abuja-Kaduna train attack, the ministry said on Thursday.
According to the ministry’s spokesman Eric Ojiekwe in a statement, publications which reported otherwise did not represent what Amaechi said during his visit to the victims in Kaduna on Wednesday.
The victims are receiving treatment at 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital and St. Gerald’s Catholic Hospital in Kaduna.
”The Ministry of Transportation’s attention has been drawn to the story carried by the Print media and other online platforms. Quoting the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, as asking Nigerian people to liaise with the hospital management and see how much they can contribute to the treatment of the patients is false and a terrible misrepresentation,” the statement said.
”On the contrary, what the Minister said and we have it on record is: ‘I have said to the Nigerian Railway Corporation to liaise with the hospital management and see how much they can contribute for the treatment of the patients’.
”In light of the above, we urge the public to disregard these publications.”
