The standard ruler of Otumara neighborhood within the Lagos Mainland of the state, Excessive Chief Kehinde Kalejaiye, has urged the Lagos State Emergency Administration Company (LASEMA) to research the latest gasoline explosion on the Nationwide Theatre and produce the perpetrators to justice.
Kalejaiye made the decision following media report on the continuing efforts by LASEMA to unravel the culprits behind the explosion which affected buildings, and vehicles and killed cows and goats.
In accordance with a press release issued by the Head, Public Affairs Unit of LASEMA, Nosa Okunbor, the explosion was attributable to the storing of gasoline cylinders in one of many workplaces within the constructing belonging to the Nationwide Council of Arts and Tradition situated inside the Nationwide Theatre premises.
Reacting to the assertion, the standard ruler mentioned the assertion by LASEMA didn’t paint the true image of the rapid and the distant causes of the gasoline explosion.
In accordance with him, the explosion was attributable to unlawful transloading of refined petroleum merchandise and LPG by some lessees working inside the Nationwide Theatre premises.
He alleged that the Normal Supervisor of the parastatal, Prof. Sunday Ododo typically in 2022 leased out a portion of the previous CBAAC land to some unlawful operators to be used as transloading bay with out the approval of the board and administration of the parastatal.
He, due to this fact, urged the LASEMA to probe the involvement of the Normal Supervisor, the lessees and the officers on the Nigeria Police publish situated inside the premises with a view to attending to the basis of the matter.
He mentioned, “Whereas I commend the immediate response of the Lagos State Hearth Fighters and the LASEMA, I wish to name for the investigation of the rapid and the distant reason for the explosion.”