The Involved Stakeholders of the Nationwide Theatre have known as for the investigation of Friday, December 29, 2023, gasoline explosion on the Nationwide Theatre in Lagos.
In response to the group, the explosion that destroyed valuables was as a result of unlawful trans-loading of refined petroleum merchandise and LPG inside the Nationwide Theatre premises.
Reiterating his name for a radical and unbiased investigation into the explosion and the unlawful trans-loading operations on the CBAAC land, the spokesman of the group, Olalekan Ayinde, urged President Bola Tinubu and the Minister for Arts, Tradition, and Artistic Economic system, Hajia Hannatu Musawa, to arrange a probe panel to analyze the circumstances that led to the explosion.
Ayinde blamed the Prof. Sunday Ododo-led Nationwide Theatre administration for the explosion whereas additionally criticising the final supervisor for leasing out the land for unlawful petroleum and LPG trans-loading with out finishing up a threat evaluation and acquiring the approval of the board and administration of the parastatal.
He mentioned, “The explosion is avoidable. It was a results of the recklessness and corruption of the administration. They leased out the unlawful portion of land with out following due course of and with out contemplating the chance concerned within the enterprise.
Prof. Sunday Ododo didn’t receive board and administration approval earlier than granting the land to the lessee.
If not for the negligence of the administration, the explosion was avoidable as a result of there was a report on the unlawful actions of the lessee earlier than the final supervisor, which he ignored.
I’m conscious that there was an current report of actions inside the parastatal dated September 25, 2023, which cautioned the administration on the hazards concerned in leasing the land out for unlawful trans-loading operations. The report was issued by one engineer, Usman Habib, who had carefully noticed the actions of the lessee.
The report documented that there have been ongoing development works going down on the Entrance ‘C’ gate, the lawns, and the piling works reverse the Entrance ‘B’ gate. Within the report, the writer claimed to have noticed that the unlawful and harmful actions had been nonetheless going down on the former CBAAC land close to the artists’ village, the place he had earlier notified the authorities way back to the second quarter of 2022 concerning the trans-loading of refined petroleum merchandise from the vehicles into jerry cans and drums and in addition LPG from the vehicles into cooking cylinders of various sizes. This has continued regardless of the hazards concerned. However nothing got here out of the report, which should have put a cease to the unlawful trans-loading actions.
We, the involved stakeholders, are due to this fact bothered concerning the security of staff inside the Nationwide Theatre and, extra importantly, those that work immediately on the website of the explosion. We’re due to this fact calling on the Federal Authorities and the supervising ministry to fish out those that are behind the unlawful trans-loading operation and in addition probe deep into the funds and actions of the managers of the parastatal. That is vital to stop the recurrence of such a harmful explosion.”
A safety operative manning the Entrance C gate of the parastatal who craved anonymity disclosed that there are a great deal of shadowy actions happening inside the parastatal.
He described the trans loading of petroleum and LPG by the lessee as unlawful, whereas alleging that their operations are aided by the administration of the parastatatal.
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