File Photo: The scene of the
4 Kaduna gas explosion. The recovery of the three bodies brings to eight the number of victims killed by the gas explosion.
The North West Zonal Controller, DPR,
Tafida represented the Minister of State for
"The department in collaboration with security and other government agencies including KEPA and KASUPDA evacuated the cylinders in the shop where the gas explosion occurred to safety and in the process, mutilated bodies of three other victims were recovered under the debris. "The operator who brought the calamity upon the victims was operating at the premises illegally.
"From the information we received, he came from another location because of our campaign against illegal gas operators, unfortunately, nobody alerted us," he said. Tafida said DPR, together with the security and other agencies would comb the nooks and crannies of the country to check such illegal operators.
"While expressing the condolences of the Minister of State Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva and the Director, DPR, Auwalu Sarki to you and other members of the family, we will like to assure you that government is taking adequate measures to forestall reoccurrence of such disasters which has to do with illegality," Tafida said. He said the department has also engaged in public sensitization on the safe handling of gas.
"This particular incident did not have to do with
He assured that security agencies were working to track down the operator of the gas shop who is currently at large. Meanwhile, the family of the late professor has appealed to the Federal Government to take appropriate regulatory measures to avert similar incidents in any part of the country.
Dorcas Kasang-Aderigbigbe, daughter of the deceased, made the appeal while receiving the delegation. "Because you are coming from the minister and the
"It has come to our notice that the Kaduna State governor and the agencies involved are doing something about it in the state, but we want to appeal that steps be taken at the national level to ensure that this does not happen again. "We do not want any family to go through what we are going through.
"That is why we are pleading that whatever regulatory measures that needed to be taken, be taken to ensure that this does not happen again," Kasang-Aderigbigbe said.
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