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Oil Tankers Explode, Kill Pregnant Woman, Soldier, Others
July 24, 2008 15:45, 1,601 views
By Cyriacus Izuekwe
A pregnant woman and a soldier were among the 10 victims burnt to death this morning, when two petroleum tankers fell and exploded at Orile Iganmu, Lagos.
Investigations by P.M.News revealed that the accident occurred at about 5.30 a.m. when a petrol tanker hit another tanker carrying diesel.
A spill on the road was said to have ignited fire which consumed the diesel tanker and led to an explosion of the petrol tanker.
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Workers and motorists hurrying to work early in the morning were caught in the fire which spread along the Iganmu road.
A commuter bus was burnt beyond recognition. Some passengers were reportedly burnt to death while many suffered burns and were rushed to hospitals around Orile.
The identities of the victims could not be ascertained at press time.
The accident caused traffic gridlock along the busy Badagry expressway.
Motorists were seen taking alternative routes to avoid the inferno.
Officials of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) and Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) were trying to direct traffic to safer routes at the time of filing this report.
Also, fire fighting officials had not arrived the scene of the tragedy at the time of going to press.
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Felix Korode
24 July 2008 15:49IT’S A PITY!
My heart goes to the family members of the deceased and the injured people.
Don Joy
24 July 2008 16:00The decay of our infrastructure would continue to consume innocent citizens as long as our incensitive leaders turn deaf ears to this anomalies.
Oyenuga
24 July 2008 16:17These are lives being wasted daily due to a deliberate policy of ruining all our refineries so that we will continue to import and, ruining the railways so that all transportation shall be via road which also are in ruins; whether federal road, state roads or even rural roads.
Really our leaders minds have been taken over by satan.
Otherwise how would one hear of news such as these and still feel confortable with maintaining the status quo.
Fela sang suffering and smilling. He said Nigerians are cowards; we don wan die, our mama dey for house, our wives (and concubimes) dey for house, but we are daily wasted on the roads, in our homes, on the bikes, in our vehicles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We queue for water, kerosine, petrol, even death!!!!!!!!!!
WHEN SHALL WE WAKE UP AND FIGHT FOR OUR LIBERATION.
WE DAILY DREAM OF A J.J.RAWLINGS that will come and clean the stable for us. The Rawlings is in each of us!!
It is either we confront what we fear and kill it or we keep running while it continues to take pot shots at us! Via hellish fire, generator fumes, premature death, mass murder, etc.
WHEN SHALL WE WAKE UP???????????????????
Oyenuga
24 July 2008 16:25I JUST READ THAT OBAFEMI MARTINS MUM WAS ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF THIS FIRE DUE TO THE FUMES SHE INHALED!!!!!!!
CAN WE SEE WHAT WE ARE ALLOWING TO HAPPEN TO US???????????
THE POOR BOY’S LIFE LIKE MANY FAMILIEAS WE DO NOT KNOW HAVE BEEN SHATTERED!!!
WHAT A PEOPLE WE ARE?????????
WE SELF DESTRUCT WITH DELIGHT!!
HOW LONG SHALL WE SHALL THEY KILL US, WHILE WE TAKE TURN TO DIE????????????????
adetoro adeniyi
24 July 2008 16:30our goverment should try and find solution to all this tanker drivers issue. if possible should widen the orile gadagry express road or disallow the police not to be stopping commuter bus their sometime as early as 5am some police is out collect money from the commuter till 10pm. may the good LORD grant the family of the grief one courage to bear the loss.
Chicago
24 July 2008 16:31May the good Lord have mercy on us. I pray the departed souls should rest in peace. It’s unfortunate. The last one was on Ikorodu road and now Orile. If our sins are that big we pray that God should show mercy. This accidents should be the thing of the past. If at all God wanted to punish us He should direct all punishments to the sit of power and not innocent souls.
ama leonard ofo
24 July 2008 16:38Oh God!Into your hands we commit ourselves.We are being treated like animals in this country by successive governments.No good roads,electricity to light up the roads.If not for the restrictions from Lagos State Government for tankers not to operate in the day,casualities would have been more.NIGERIA WE HAIL THEE!
Don Mike
24 July 2008 16:47May Souls of the deceased rest in Perfect peace….. Perhaps the road network there is too narrow or there are pot-holes, as a result of bad construction job awarded to Party touts under the idea of Let-The-Boy-Chop aproach {Jeunsoke}. The governement should try and expand the road networks rather than Planting Flowers so tankers will not hit one another again. Also, the Idea of Psychiatric test for the Drivers should be properly implemented rather than the present aproach where LASTMA and other Party touts {KAI} will just Charge you and take bribe to release offenders. Most of the Tanker Drivers are drunk. Many souls have died as a result of Tanker menace, but the death is nothing to goverment. If the goverment felt concerned about the menace of tanker incidents, it should have organise an open forum where they, the Tanker Drivers can openly open up on the cause for the governemnt to take care of such. The power of reasoning is not limited to the Commissioner alone, a situation where a Medical Doctor manages the Portfolio of an Engineer, If all these Tanker Drivers opinions are sought, the problems of tanker falling will solve. Government should not wait untill People die before acting… A decietful Governement is a seat of Administration of Fraud… Some boobs, and Figures of fun in the society only see that some roads are under construction without puting the quality of job into consideration, even if it wears aways the following week, all the apologists and buffoons wants to see is the propaganda of contractor working on the road and causing hold ups. That is when the Goverment is active to them. Don Mike.
Mobolaji Sogunle (Canning Town London E13)
24 July 2008 17:10What else can we say than to say that may therir souls meet the almighty God at the gate of heaven as the cause of their death is never their fault. But on the other hand can someone tell all these petroleum dealers to get new and motorable vehicles to carry their products as i dont know what they do with all the money they make on these products if they cannot even buy motorable vehicles. In all the over 7 years of my stay abroad, i have never seen a petroleum vehicle get burnt and need i tell you that i have also never see a petrol tanker tyres been shocked on the highway with log of wood as they do in traffic hold-ups in Lagos.
Not until they start charging tanker owners with mass murder, i dont think they will think straight. Fines will not even do the trick. May God help us.
'LAYIWOLA JIMOH
24 July 2008 17:32It’s a pity. May the deads’ souls rest in peace, and May ALLAH grant the injured quick recovery.
May ALLAH take control of the country’s affairs.
gbolly
24 July 2008 17:38i weep for nigeria, my country i love so much , when will all this stop . pls do something GOD. THE GOVERNMENT DONT CARE ABOUT US THEY ALL CARE ABOUT THERE POCKET.
emmysoul
24 July 2008 17:41It is only God that will save us from this tanker drivers,if only the government will provide routes only to be taken by this tanker drivers before situations like this will not take place.They can even operate only at night ,it will do us alot of good.
raymond
24 July 2008 19:38it is just too sad that accident of these nature keep on happening almosy every day.i believe the lagos state goverment should impose a time when these useless truck drivers should ploy the road.please make a law restricting them to certain houes of d day f.they should be allowed out from 10pm-5am.by doing these it will reduce a lot of accident on the road
tunde sodipo
24 July 2008 19:44Yes it has happen again. I was just complaining of the death of my cousin who due to a break failure of a lorry tipper in Ogere Remo Old toll gate. It happen most often. In April 2008 more than eleven people including children died due to break failure of tanker lorry at the toll gate.
Until our refineneries are made to work so that these tanker trailers can load at the nearest location to their destination, we would continue to have this problem on our roads. Loading at their nearest location will reduce the number of hours spent on th road. It is pure craziness for tanker trailers to come from far away Maiduguri to Lagos to load and vice versa.
It is madness of the highest order.
ogechi okereafor
24 July 2008 19:55Oh! am weeping! shall we continue to surfer these human error and negligence daily? Where’s d fear of God? Why is it that Our Leaders’ hearts are occupied by wickedness? END TIME! THESE ARE THE SIGNS.
SISI
24 July 2008 20:55This is so sad and unfortunate,i pray to GOD to grant the victims an eternal rest .and GOD in his infinite mercy turn around the situation of our beloved country and make us happy in jesus name. GOD have mercy on the masses,have forgive us ,we need your peace and your presence in NIGERIA. GOD BLESS NIGERIA. AMEN
stanley okafor
24 July 2008 21:25Sad story, I was with the obafemi’s mum five minutes b4 she gave up. She actually died of heart attack and not fumes and the earlier guy wrote. She is my land lady. Let our Govt do something about the petrol tankers. It is not good for the road. I saw lifes being wasted. What a tragedy
awolola
24 July 2008 21:34God save gaddam naija from these reckless trailer and tanker drivers. After u have killed all of us, you will carry the country go.
shola Barboza
24 July 2008 23:32A truck dealer has vowed under oath to me in confidence that train will never work in nigeria.Twelve years gone,the notherner nigeriabusiness man is still enjoying his lucrative businees of dead dutch trucks imported to Nigeria.
shola Barboza
24 July 2008 23:33A truck dealer has vowed under oath to me in confidence that train will never work in nigeria.Twelve years gone,the notherner nigeriabusiness man is still enjoying his lucrative businees of dead dutch trucks imported to Nigeria.
amsterdam,holland
CHARLES
24 July 2008 23:36The decay of infrastructure in Nigeria has shown that the so called elected representatives are paying lips service to issues of national importance that should benefit the common man. I wonder if we can ever a better Nigeria in this planet. May the souls of the victim rest in peace.
Ade Kaduna
25 July 2008 09:22My prayer is that God should inter vain in Nigeria situations. Our leaders are not ready to listen to us again. What they after now is how to enrich themselves. Not a single infrastructure is functioning again in Nigeria. May God arise and deliver us from the hands our self centered leaders and give us His own chosen leaders like Moses, Joshua that led the Israelites to the promised land.
lester eghagha
25 July 2008 09:59It is only in Nigeria we hear these type of events occuring over and over again
Aijay
25 July 2008 11:39There is great deacay in the system, that is why we still go through things like this. We have been hearing of these tankers roasting people alive year after year but please do tell, how many of the tanker drivers/tanker owners have been made to face the consequence of their acts. Since our “dear” government is not ready to do anything about the state of our roads, at least people should be made to pay for the loss of these lives. Think about this, many of the people who were killed were actually on their way to work to earn something to feed their families. Now can someone please tell, “What is going to happen to those ones?”. This is just HORRIBLE to put it mildly. Please let the people in charge get the culprits arrested, if not they should know that as they are in their cosy homes, enjoying themselves, the blood of these ones will cry out against them because of their inaction.
Adenike
25 July 2008 12:30This is a tragedy and pathetic situation. I dont know when this fire, fire accident will stop! Many things contributed to this deadly incident. Our roads are bad (I wonder how it will be when the 3rd mainland bridge is close down as planned by the govt), diesel/fuel tankers, long vehicle, etc should be prevented from operating during the day, and many others.
To think of it, is our government saying that our country is no longer a safe place? How will Femi Martins feel now. So, no one should blame any one who moves his/her families to abroad.
Governor Fashola, I want to believe that you are human and we expect a quick remedy, please. Eko O Ni Baje in Jesus’ name.
My condolense to the deceased families. Nigerians, let be more prayerful and stand against every spirit of sudden death. It’s well!
Opal
25 July 2008 13:31Truck with highly inflammable substance must not be allowed to go through residential areas.
oluwafemi
25 July 2008 15:51Governor Fashola, Eko o ni baje la si ko it yin ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Pls do something about it may GOD be with you