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Lagos State government has threatened to shut down any retail gas outlet operating without adhering to safety measures. The Director-General, Lagos State Safety Commission, Lanre Mojola, speaking at the opening ceremony of the oil and gas stakeholders’ safety summit, said that the move is to guide against avoidable gas explosions.
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Mojola, represented by the commission’s Technical Adviser, Seun Awojobi explained that the essence of the summit is to train practitioners in the sector on how to handle Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) in better and safer ways.
He said: “We know of past incidents that had happened, ranging from industrial to residential accidents with several lives lost.
“Event like this is designed to bring the practitioners in the liquefied gas sector together to train them on best practices around the usage of gas to guide against gas explosions and loss of lives,” he added.
Mojola maintained that the state government has identified about 2,500 gas retail shops across the state and it is working with the association to weed out marketers, operating without proper safety measures.
According to him, “The government has done the enumeration of retail gas outlets in Lagos with the intent of scaling up their safety measures for the ones that are open to scaling. For others that we believe will pose harm or danger to the environment, we are shutting them down”.
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