 Passengers have been stranded at train stations since the federal government announced free services for them nationwide. That was from December 24th, 2021, to end on January 4th of 2022. Some passengers at a train station in Lagos were seen lamenting that the system was frustrating. Jacinta Obuco has more. At the Babatunde fashion at train station at Gigi, we were greeted by angry passengers who were hustling for their tickets. The train services were scheduled for 6am, 12pm and 4pm for the day. They complained about the process and boarding delay in the system. They disclosed that some passengers who were supposed to board 6am train were yet to get their tickets at 10am when our crew arrived the station. But now it seems like there's no free lunch anymore. So it's looking like people have to tip some people to get in and all that. Some people are holding the ticket and all that. We have been here since early in the morning. So if what we want them to do is just to do the certain calculation, but then we got here, let us know if we can. Because if we are here since 7pm and we could not even be able to follow 4pm again, we are going back home. So far it's a bit stressful because in NGI anything that is free cannot be easy. But then I think since it's free we should be able to endure the process. One of the passengers even stressed that the government shouldn't have approved the free ticket but should have reduced the fare instead. When you are running a business and you give it totally free, you are wasting the resources. You can subsidize not to let it be free. I don't see a nation that will be giving all these facilities as free for more than a day. You are just starting a real system again and the real system you just started. You are running free. It's all good. Some of the passengers alleged that some people are paying their way through the back door. However, passengers were warned not to cut corners but to exercise patience. This has been going on for days and citizens are waiting for the next line of action from the authorities. Jacinta Ubuku for PLOS TV Africa.