Lagos West Senator-elect decries Idimu petrol tanker accident

The senator-elect for Lagos West Senatorial District, Hon. Solomon Adeola has expressed sadness over yet another petrol tanker accident at Idimu in his Alimosho Federal constituency where about 40 houses were burnt and property worth millions of naira destroyed.

He commiserated with his constituents, noting that, this is the second accident in less than a week following the petrol tanker accident at Iyana-Ipaja Bridge axis of his senatorial district where properties and residential buildings worth millions of naira were lost to the ensuing inferno.

The senator-elect who is the outgoing representative of Alimosho Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives said the recurrence of these accidents requires the government at all levels to take a holistic look at the mode of transportation of highly inflammable material through densely populated areas as well as compensatory system through insurance when such accidents occurred.

Adeola said these accidents were unfortunate at this trying period for the nation with serious hardship being experienced by the people on all fronts, adding that, it is his hope that the relevant agencies of government at state and Federal level do all in its power to ameliorate the huge losses suffered by the people.

He further called on relevant regulatory agencies to come up with policies on the control and maintenance of articulated vehicles carrying inflammable materials like petrol as most of the accidents relating to such vehicles could be traced to lack of maintenance as well as their hours of operation in densely populated areas like Alimosho.

The senator-elect called on men of The Nigerian Police and other security agencies to exercise utmost restraints in their dealings with drivers of these articulated vehicles as the accident was reported to be related to altercations between the police and the driver of the ill-fated truck.