Residents of Ijegun Egba, Satellite Town in Lagos have raised the alarm over smell of gas in their community.
This is contained in an emergency message sent to inform the Lagos State Fire Service of the development in the community.
Residents alleged that the leakage was coming from a petroleum depot at the Ijegun Egba gas farm.
The message read: “The Lagos State Fire Service is, hereby, notified that there is huge smell of gas in the community coming from a depot [name withheld] in Ijegun Egba gas farm.”
According to the statement by the Satellite Town Forum, the offensive gas smell has enveloped a small part of the community and this is making residents panic.
They urged relevant regulatory agencies to call on the tank farm management to ensure that “there is no fire outbreak as result of the gas leakage in the community.”
They, therefore, called on the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to carry out proper investigation on the gas leakage that occurred at about 1:05 p.m. on Thursday in the community.
“We at Satellite Town Forum hereby advise that the Lagos State Fire Service and Federal Fire Service should kindly carry out thorough investigations that lead to this gas leakage which occurred today [Thursday, June 24].
“We don’t want the gas explosion at Ade-Soba community to happen at Ijegun Egba tankfarms,” they said.
