Posted by By Albert Akpor on
A major fire disaster was averted yesterday in Abule-Ado in Oriade Local Government Area of Lagos after an NNPC pipe was vandalised causing a large quantity of fuel almost overrunning the entire village behind the International Trade Fair Complex along Lagos Badagry expressway.
LAGOS - A major fire disaster was averted yesterday in Abule-Ado in Oriade Local Government Area of Lagos after an NNPC pipe was vandalised causing a large quantity of fuel almost overrunning the entire village behind the International Trade Fair Complex along Lagos Badagry expressway.
This is happening even as the police yesterday said they arrested 46 persons said to have participated in the incessant clashes at Aja, an outskirt of Lagos over chieftaincy tussle. The incident which caused pandemonium among villagers, especially exhibitors at the on-going trade fair was however, brought under control after the police promptly alerted officials of NNPC who raced to the scene and effected repairs of the destroyed portion of the pipe. At the scene, two persons were arrested while a petrol tanker with registration number OYO 895 KNH and 4000 litres of fuel were recovered.
Lagos State police public relations officer, Mr. Olabode Ojajuni, confirmed the incident and arrest of the two persons adding that they had since been transferred to the state command headquarters for interrogation.
And at Aja, the police weekend staged a clamp down on warring factions over chieftaincy issues arresting no fewer that 46 persons. Police sources said the dawn raid which was carried out by a combined team of detectives from the Police Mobile Force (MOPOL 20), Rapid Response Squad (RRS) and ‘Area A' followed repeated clashes resulting in several deaths and destruction of property running into hundreds of thousands of naira.