Tanker explosions: Mbah reiterates enforcement of anti-spill lock
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Ebonyi NSCDC boss canvasses transportation of inflammable products by night
Governor of Enugu State, Dr Peter Mbah, has reiterated his call for the enforcement of anti-spill locks on fuel tankers across the country, saying that disasters arising from tanker-spill had become too frequent.
Mbah restated the call yesterday when he received the Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mrs Zubaida Umar, and her team in his office. They were in Enugu to flag off the distribution of emergency intervention items to the victims of Saturday’s tanker fire that caused the loss of several lives and also consumed several vehicles and goods at Ugwu Onyeama, along the Enugu-Onitsha federal highway.
“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. After all, 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.
“So, I will always want to use this opportunity again to reiterate my call on the law enforcement agencies to ensure strict enforcement of the anti-spill lock on all our petroleum product tankers. It is extremely important,” he stated.
The governor explained that his administration was doing everything humanly possible to ensure that the survivors got full medical treatment, noting that the government would bear the full expenses.
HOWEVER, following the series of explosions of tankers with inflammable products which have claimed lives and properties worth billions of Naira across the country, the Ebonyi State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Francis Nnadi, yesterday, called on the federal and state governments to ban the transportation of inflammable products during the day.
Nnadi made the recommendation when members of the Correspondents’ Chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ebonyi State chapter, led by its Chairman, Uchenna Inya, paid him a courtesy visit, insisting that the movement of the product by night will end incessant explosion, adding that the Command sympathises with the families of those affected in one way or another.
He noted that global weather change has affected a lot of things, including the movement of inflammable products, calling on other security agencies in the country to collaborate and end incessant gas explosions.
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