Senate To Investigate Ladipo Gas Explosion

 The Nigerian Senate has ordered an investigation into the remote and immediate causes of the gas explosion at Ladipo Spare Parts Market area of Mushin LGA, Lagos State, which led to the death of at least 5 persons including a 10-year old boy. 

This followed the passage of a motion of urgent public importance moved by Senator Solomon Adeola (APC, Lagos West) calling the attention of the Senate to yet another explosion in his Senatorial District resulting in fatalities.  

The Senate directed its committees on Petroleum Downstream and Gas to investigate the explosion with a view to preventing future occurrences. 

The Senator noted that there has been a recurrence of similar explosions in recent times in the same area in his Senatorial District as happened in 2016, 2018 (Abule-Egba), 2019 (Abule – Egba) 2020 (Ijegun), and 2020 (Ile-Epo, Oke-Odo), 2020(Abule Ado) stressing that Nigerians resident in all the densely populated area where these explosions occurred now live in fear of not only losing properties and investment but their lives or those of love ones from these frequent explosive fire disasters. 

The Senate observed a minute silence in honour of the innocent Nigerians that lost their lives in the inferno and directed NEMA, the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development to immediately send relief materials to affected victims and offset medical bills of those hospitalized.