Don’t watch unless 18: Obiano weeps at Onitsha Petrol tanker fire and Photos

 

www.odogwublog.com brings you more reports and photos of how Governor Willie Obiano wept at the

scene.

Obiano heard the accident and immediately rushed to the scene of the accident, but he was overwhelmed by the sight. He wept on seeing the number of casualties. He was speechless.

The Governor told the relations of the victims to take heart and promised that the state will help in ensuring that the living victims are well taken care of in their respective hospitals

The accident happened when a trailer loaded with Premium Motor Spirit otherwise known as petrol descending from Army barracks side of Onitsha Enugu express way allegedly lost control and rammed into the Asaba Motor Park at Upper Iweka, Onitsha and exploded.

According to the Nigerian Red Cross Society Vice Chairman, Prof Peter Emeka Kathy “we have sixty nine burnt to dead persons as at now, there are other 30 casualties, a casualty is a living person, a dead person is no longer a casualty, so 69 persons are dead, and they have been evaluated to various mortuaries in Onitsha, from Toronto to St Charles Boromneo Mortuaries and others in town”.
He said further: “Presently, we have 69 people burnt to death and 30 casualties. “The dead have been evacuated to various mortuaries in Onitsha. “The tanker driver lost his break while descending the hill from Boromeo and Army Barracks end of the Onitsha-Enugu Expressway towards Upper Iweka.
 “Instead of looking for a wide gutter to break his speed, he veered into a park, where commercial vehicles were taking on passengers. Most of the people that died were inside vehicles in the park.
“If the driver of the tanker were alive, he would have been arraigned in the court because it is multiple murder. He was reckless. He knew he was fully loaded with petrol and yet he decided to direct his vehicle into a motor park.
“He does not care for human lives. How can you veer into a park where you know buses were filled with people, when the road is wide enough for you to control your vehicle?”
Rescue operation
At the scene at about 5.30pm, all the Divisional Police Officers in Onitsha, including Rabiu Garba of Fegge Police Station; Emeka Ugwu of Okpoko Police Station and Cosmas Eze of Inland Town Police Station, and their Central Police Station, Onitsha, counterpart, Isah Abubakar, were involved in rescue operation.
Men of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, and Willie Work Force were also on ground.