The Minister of Transportation, Senator Said Alkali has constituted a 12-member committee to investigate the cause of the Abuja-Kaduna bound train derailment on August 26, 2025.
Alkali urged the committee members to investigating the immediate and remote causes of the accident and to make recommendations on how to prevent similar incidents in the future.
In a statement issued Wednesday by the ministry’s Director of Press, Janet McDickson, the minister also urged the committee to identify ways to enhance rail transportation’s safety and effectiveness in Nigeria even as he commiserated with those injured, thanking God for sparing the lives of everyone on the train.
Members of the committee are: the director overseeing the office of the permanent secretary, Musa Ibrahim, as chairman; technical adviser to the minister, Prof. Danwaka Shuaibu; director of road transport services, Engr. Zirra Finbar; director of legal, Barr. Omotola Olusegun, who will serve as the committee’s secretary.
Others are: Managing Director, Nigeria Railway Corporation, Dr. Kayode Opeifa; inspector of Railway, Engr. I.A Ebuniwe, representative of Technics Engineering Architecture Marketing Nig. Ltd; representative of CCECC; representative of Civil Society Organisation; one male and one female representative of passengers.