Fire disaster looms in Lagos as burst pipeline causes anxiety

The residents of Ijedodo area of Isheri-Osun in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State have called on Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola to come to their rescue as they express fear over the looming fire disaster in their community
In a Save Our Soul letter sent to the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit of the Governor’s Office, the community drew the attention of the relevant government agencies to the danger the people in the area are being exposed to by the illegal erection of houses along the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation pipeline.
Chief Lamidi Oseni, who signed the letter on behalf of the community, stated that the buildings along the NNPC pipeline include churches and other illegal structures not approved by the government.
The community therefore call on the governor to order the demolition of such houses and structures to avert disaster.
Oseni wrote in the letter: “Some persons who claim to be land owners who now engage themselves in the sale and transfer of these parcels of land under which the NNPC pipeline is constructed are creating problems for the community as the foundations of these buildings, have damaged and exposed the pipes from which some persons now siphon petrol at odd hours of the night.”
He further warned that such houses and structures erected on pipeline without any recourse to the danger of a fire outbreak will spell doom for the community, adding: “The foundation of a particular Celestial Church of Christ built on a pipeline has affected one of the NNPC’s pipelines; this burst pipeline is causing anxiety in the community and if not attended to soonest may cause unimaginable damage to properties and loss of human if there is any spark.”