The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said on Monday that the explosion in Abule-Ado in Amuwo Odofin Council Area of Lagos was caused by too much pressure on pipeline.
Recall that an explosion on Sunday morning which vibration and sound was felt and heard all over Lagos killed over 20 people, injured several others and destroyed properties running into millions of naira.
Addressing newsmen at the scene of the explosion on Monday, NEMA Southwest Coordinator, Ibrahim Farinloye, stated that the explosion had nothing to do with bomb blast or Improvised Explosives Devices (IED) as is being speculated by some persons.
He said preliminary security analysis indicated that an eight-tonne truck laden with core stone, which was parked on the pipeline overnight, exerted too much pressure on it.
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The NEMA boss explained that fuel that escaped the pipeline saturated the atmosphere, forming a whitish substance and later exploding.
Some residents also corroborated Farinloye’s position saying the truck, which was moving into the street to a construction site, got stuck on the pipeline overnight and put a lot of pressure there.
“The truck stayed there for so long and with its weight on the pipeline, the fuel in the pipe which is about eight-foot deep was trying to force its way out.
“That was how a smoke-like substance started forming from under the truck and soon developed into a cloud that covered the entire area and then the blast,” a man who claimed to be an engineer said.
