The Lagos State Emergency Safety Agency, LASEMA, has averted a massive emergency disaster following a pipeline explosion in the Royal Estate Iyana Odo area of the state.
The State agency’s Director-General/ CEO, Dr. Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu in a press release said, the Agency received a distress call via the emergency toll-free line, today Friday, 24th December 2021 at 12.30am regarding a pipeline explosion at Royal Estate Iyana Odo along LASU-Igando Road.
Dr. Oke-Osanyintolu noted that immediately, the Emergency Response Plan was activated and the Agency’s Response Team at Igando was deployed.
“Consequent upon the arrival of the Team, it was discovered that a 330KV Transmission Powerline collapsed with its power cables, spreading across the two lanes of the Major Road inward and outward Igando-Idimu Road as a result of the impact of a pipeline explosion which occured few metres away from the collapsed Powerline”.
“Fortunately, no casualties recorded and the G.M Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Engineer Ajiboye, was contacted and arrived the scene with his Team to restore normalcy and forestall any incident of electric shock in the area”.
In addition, the NNPC maintenance crew was also contacted to shut the valve of the pipeline.
Furthermore, the Agency’s Response Team has warned residents of adjoining buildings to vacate the area so as to avert any secondary incident that could lead to disaster.
“The Agency in collaboration with Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, the Nigeria Police Force, the NNPC and the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, are the responders at the scene”.
“Operations still ongoing” he concluded..
The Agency in collaboration with Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, the Nigeria Police Force, the NNPC, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NPF, Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps, LNSC, Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, PHCN, Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, are the only responders at the scene.
