Residents of
Peace Estate in Baruwa area of Ipaja, were thrown into panic yesterday,
following the explosion of a Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC’s
pipeline, which resulted in fire.
But for the
swift response of men of the Lagos State Fire Service and other rescue
operators, the fire would have spread to buildings close by. There were
different versions as to how the explosion occurred. A version had it that
there had been a leakage in one of the pipelines, which spilled petro-leum
product into farmlands. When farmers set the bush on fire in preparation for
the new planting season, the explosion occurred. Another version had it that
some persons were scooping the spilled product when one of them threw a stick
of cigarette away. When the state’s Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal,
arrived the scene, he said: “I can see constructions close to the pipeline’s
right of way. Perhaps people carry out these constructions without knowledge of
the implication.”
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