There
was an explosion in Lagos on Wednesday after vandals ruptured an oil
pipeline belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation at
Akinbo Island.
PUNCH
Metro learnt that the culprits came to the jetty in three
barges and canoes around 1am and ruptured the splash zone of the
pipeline and siphoned thousands of litres of petrol into jerry cans
and operated for hours undeterred.
However,
around 4.30am, there was a fire outbreak and the pipe through which
they siphoned the fuel as well as a canoe were engulfed in flames.
The
spokesperson, NEMA, South-West Zone, Ibrahim Farinloye, said, “The
fire started at midnight between 1am and 4am. On getting there, we
could not move too close because the fire was intense. However, the
fire was put out around 10:48am.
“We
did not see any corpses and we cannot say if anyone was injured. We
however recovered a 16mm hose used by the vandals as well as parts of
boats used by them
“We
have two security posts and an observatory tower here just about 200
metres away. We have about 50 policemen, 47 naval personnel stationed
here. Some NSCDC personnel also patrol the area but they are not here
all the time,” he said.
What
were all the securities not far away doing? Questions should be asked
and answers given. We have to start holding people responsible.
Let
just hope this does not affect the supply of petrol.
Culled from Punch.
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