Three hundred victims of Agbado/Oke-Odo pipeline explosion on Thursday commended the efforts of the Lagos State Government at the Internally Displaced Persons’ Camp in Igando and solicited help from other Nigerians.
Some of the victims spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
One of the victims, Olalekan Fadairo, a former member of staff of the defunct Nigeria Airways, said he lost his building at 20, Karimu Agbado-Oke Odo as a result of the pipeline explosion.
He commended the love and care given to all the victims by the state government and staff of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency since January 22 when they were brought to the IDPs camp.
Fadairo said: “Some LASEMA staff who were deployed to the camp were very hospitable.
“They always play with us and usually fulfil all our needs and want on daily basis.
“Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu came with the Deputy Governor and Director-General of LASEMA on Saturday and promised to solicit support for us from other agencies like the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and National Emergency Management Agency.
“The explosion that happened due to pipeline vandalism brought us to the camp in Igando since January 22.
“When I came back from the Church on Sunday evening, my wife called me while I was bathing that she was perceiving gas all over the house and immediately I came out of the house, the whole environment had been polluted.
“We were breathing gas and while we were meditating outside, the leaking petrol came with fire and burnt our house, including other people’s buildings in the area.”
Another Victim, Calista Chukwu, said after the explosion, she thought all hope was lost but she thanked God for the support the state government had been rendering to them.
Chukwu said: “We rented a room apartment at No 34, Pipeline, Oke-Odo.
“The explosion burnt my husband’s car and the whole building.
“My husband, who is a stroke patient, fainted in the process of getting him out of the building, but we thank God for the support of the Lagos Health Care who revived him and now his blood pressure had come down drastically.
“I love this environment if only the Lagos State Government can allow us to be retained in this place.
“We are eating nourishing food three times daily.”
Chukwu urged the state government to put concrete on the pipeline to avoid constant vandalism, saying they hardly slept in the environment due to bunkering activities of tankers at all times.
Helen Oseni, a resident of 45, Pipeline, Oke-Odo, urged government to assist those displaced in building houses so that her children and her step children would not turn to miscreants.
Oseni said she came back from the market and saw the house burning, adding that she just carried her grandchild and escaped.
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