Several persons on Saturday died after a petrol-laden tanker exploded at the Ugwu-Onyeama section of the Enugu-Onitsha expressway.
Gov Peter Mbah received Zubaida Umar, the director-general of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) for the distribution of relief items to the victims of the explosion, Mbah said…
“As I stated when I visited the scene, we have disasters that we know that we obviously could not have envisaged or predicted, and when they happen, we trigger all the responses that we have set up,”
“But this issue of tanker fire or explosion is becoming too recurrent, and I did call on the law enforcement agencies, particularly the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), to ensure the enforcement of the anti-spill lock.
“This is because if we have an anti-spill lock on those tankers carrying inflammable products like petrol and automotive gas oil, we will then be able to mitigate such disasters because even if the tanker falls, it will still not spill.
“But what happened in Enugu was a function of the spill of PMS (petrol) that got into other cars, and they got ignited.”
We have those that are at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Enugu; University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) and the Enugu state University of Science and Technology Hospital, Park Lane, and we are taking care of the bills,” he added.
“We are deeply grateful for the support you have also provided. It is also a demonstration of the partnership between the federal government and the sub-nationals in this case, which we would want to entrench.
“We provided the ever-needed logistics to ensure that these items get to those who are most in need of them.”
Zubaida Umar commiserating with the government and people of Enugu, announced the donation of food items and medical consumables for the survivors.
“I wish to commend you for the timely visit to the scene of the incident and various decisions made, including ensuring that maximum medical attention was given to the survivors,”
“We are donating relief materials consisting of 200 25kg bags of rice, 200 cartons of spaghetti, 20 cartons of five-litre vegetable oil, 20 cartons of seasoning, and 20 cartons of tomato paste, medicaments, and medical consumables to persons affected and impacted by the tanker fire explosion in Enugu state.
“The increasing cases of tanker fire explosions across Nigeria are not only devastating but also a clog on the wheel of progress and economic development of our communities.”
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