{"id":5851,"date":"2020-03-16T09:38:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T09:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2020-03-16T09:38:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T09:38:29","slug":"lagos-explosion-ohanaeze-residents-react-as-reverend-sister-16-others-confirmed-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=5851","title":{"rendered":"Lagos explosion: Ohanaeze, residents react as Reverend Sister, 16 others confirmed dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Some residents of Abule Ado in Amuwo-Odofin LGA of Lagos State, have lamented over the ravaging effects of the oil pipeline explosion which occurred on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The explosion<\/a> which occurred at about 9.00 a.m. on Sunday morning killed at least 17 people and destroyed more than 70 buildings including schools, churches, hotels and warehouses, Femi Oke-Osayintolu, Director-General of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bethlehem Girls School, owned by the Catholic Church, were among buildings reduced to rubbles as a couple and a Catholic reverend sister were among those feared dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reacting, Chief Solomon Ogbonna, the President of Ohaneze Ndigbo in Lagos State, called on the state government to conduct a thorough investigation into the explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe government must immediately do all that is necessary to avert a reoccurrence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am calling on the Lagos State Government to investigate this and not dismiss it as a mere gas explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe damage is huge,\u2019\u2019 Ogbonna said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the residents, Mr Japheth Okafor, told the NAN that he narrowly escaped death from the explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that an alarm raised by his boss alerted him and others to escape through a window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBefore the explosion, the sky changed to white and we started perceiving gas odour; few minutes after, there was an explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy boss screamed and asked us to jump through the window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat was how we escaped this morning,\u2019\u2019 Okafor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The impact of the explosion was felt kilometres away in Lagos as windows , doors of houses were shattered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Mr Mele Kyari, Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, blamed the fire on gas leakage<\/a> from activities around an oil pipeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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