Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (third right); Deputy Commissioner of Police, Operations, Mr. Ali Mohammed (second right); Commander, Rapid Response Squad (RRS), ACP Tunji Disu (right); Acting Director, Lagos State Fire Service, Mr. Razak Musibau(left); Commissioner for Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Relations, Mr. Seye Oladejo (second left) and Chairman, House Committee on Health, Hon. Segun Olulade (third left) amid the Governor's visit to the Scene of Tanker Explosion on Otedola Bridge along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, on Thursday night, June 28, 2018.
By Victor Ahiuma-Young, Olasunkanmi Akoni and Monsuru Olowoopejo Lagos—Barely three days after nine people were copied to death and 54 vehicles annihilated in an oil tanker blast at Otedola Bridge, internal Ojodu Berger, along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Lagos State government, yesterday, issued a-multi day final proposal to all administrators of enunciated vehicles to get the Ministry of Transportation's street value Certificate or face sanction.This came as Nigeria Labor Congress, NLC, and Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, requested for more teach of the parkways, regretting that with little alert and additional care, the mischance would have been stayed away from. The 30-day final offer was issued by Commissioner for Transportation, Mr. Ladi Lawanson, at an instructions close by Commissioner for Special Duties and Inter-Governmental relations, Mr. Oluseye Oladejo and Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan, in Alausa, Ikeja.
The preparation was gone to by as NUPENG, Association of Maritime Truck Owners, AMATO, National Association of Transport Operators, NATO, Container Truck Owners Association of Nigeria, among others. Lawanson additionally coordinated that tankers ought to confine their development inside the state to assigned courses, along Apapa-Oworonshoki Expressway through Ogudu to Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The magistrate focused on that explained trucks coming into the state should from now on get the street value testament , educating that new focuses along Lagos – Ibadan Expressway would be built up to adapt to the normal interest for the administration. Aside the verbalized trucks, he uncovered that "between April 1, 2017 and May, 2018, a sum of 178,267 vehicles were tried. At the very least 121,286 were guaranteed street commendable and 104,850 flopped." Ill destined truck not intended for fuel transportation While uncovering examination led at the mishap scene, Lawanson mourned that the truck, made in 1999 in United State was not intended for transportation of fuel but rather to drill work out, saying
"Examinations led so far by the Lagos State Government show that the truck, NSR 888 YC, was enrolled at Nasarawa Local Government, Kano State and has changed proprietorship 13 times since buy. This truck was planned as a 14,959kg (roughly 15 ton) boring apparatus with low bed, yet it was changed over in Nigeria from a boring apparatus to fuel tank bearer to convey 30 tons. "From this fundamental examination, the truck ought not have been stacked to the heaviness of 30 tons, which is twice its pulling limit." He included that, :"The Lagos State Government is investigating elective methods of transportation of oil based commodities to isolate traveler activity from load developments inside the city in light of a legitimate concern for open wellbeing and requests." Reacting to the blast, NLC and NUPENG, felt for casualties and their relations, asking discipline on the country's thruways.
NLC in an announcement by its President, Ayuba Wabba, stated: The extent of loss of lives and annihilation of property is great. We express our heart-felt sympathies to the casualties and groups of the perished. We hold the view that it was an avoidable mischance, given the conditions. "We call for higher driver-instruction and more strict requirement of movement principles and directions, particularly as to stopping of vehicles with inflammables. We likewise note with concern, the neglectful culture of driving in Lagos notwithstanding the immense exertion by the state government to guarantee a culture of rational soundness on the streets. In the event that these were watched, we would not have been tossed into this level of distress or grieving. "By and by, our souls go to the casualties and their families. We comparatively encourage the Lagos State Government not to yield in guaranteeing that most extreme train is kept up on its streets as well as on the entirety of our streets.
"On its part, NUPENG in an announcement by its President, Prince Williams Akpreha,, said "We are utilizing this medium to partake in the agonies of the groups of the perished, the harmed in the clinics accepting medicines and different casualties who lost their properties because of the fire mischance. It is extremely an awful and avoidable occurrence. "NUPENG is utilizing this chance to acknowledge Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Nigeria Police (for giving security), Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Lagos State Ambulance Service (LASAMBUS) and other paramilitary agents for their provoke reaction in saving the casualties and for putting the circumstance under control."
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