The Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) has said discussions are ongoing among the 36 states and strategic federal agencies in the oil and gas industry to adopt safer methods of transporting petroleum products across the country.
The forum’s chairman, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, announced this yesterday at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, when he commiserated with Governor Siminalayi Fubara and the people of the state over Friday night’s tanker inferno.
The fire, which reportedly emanated from multiple explosions of petrol-laden tankers, killed five persons and razed over 120 vehicles on Eleme axis of the East-West Road.
AbdulRazaq, who is also the Kwara State governor, recalled a similar carnage in Ogun State, which was caused by a tanker conveying Compressed Natural Gas (CNG).
In a statement by Fubara’s Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Nelson Chukwudi, the NGF chairman described the Friday incident as a huge loss.
The Kwara governor said his meeting with Fubara enabled them to discuss the recurring decimal.
