If I were on the board of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, I would have serious questions for the MD after that statement. People are complaining that they cannot buy train tickets online but can allegedly find those same tickets in the parallel market at inflated prices. His response? "We have 665 seats and 10,000 people are struggling to get them. The first 665 will get the seats within minutes, and the system will simply tell that there is no seat. You can't create what you don't have." Of course, you cannot create seats out of thin air. Nobody expects you to. But surely, the MD of a national railway corporation should understand the difference between a capacity problem and a distribution problem. If demand exceeds supply, that is a commercial opportunity. It should trigger a business case for additional coaches, more frequent services where feasible, and better utilisation of existing capacity. If tickets are genuinely being diverted to racketeers, that is a control failure. It calls for transaction audits, investigations and accountability. And if the official ticketing platform is working as intended, the MD should be able to demonstrate that with data. Instead, we get an explanation of why tickets sell out. What about the money being left on the table? What about the customers being frustrated? What about the integrity of the ticketing system? Imagine the CEO of a publicly traded company responding to evidence of possible revenue leakage by explaining that demand exceeds supply, without first addressing whether the distribution system is compromised. Investors would demand answers. The board would demand evidence. Management would be expected to present a corrective plan. The NRC may not be publicly traded, but it is a public institution. Nigerians deserve the same seriousness about operational efficiency, revenue protection and accountability. And that claim that racketeering has fallen to less than 1%? Less than 1% of what? Total tickets sold? Confirmed cases? Complaints received? How was it measured? A percentage without a clear methodology is just a number. The question is not whether the NRC can create seats it doesn't have. The question is whether it is properly managing the seats it does have, and capturing the revenue those seats should generate. If the MD cannot answer that question convincingly, his board should be asking whether he is the right person to lead the corporation.