Explosion: Alake commends Oyo State Govt.’s quick response
By Adewale Owoade
The Minister of Solid Mineral Development, Mr Dele Alake, has commended the Oyo State Government for responding swiftly to the Bodija explosion.
Alake, said this during a courtesy visit to Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, in his office, in Ibadan.
He said that the Federal Government would make a formal statement on the incident that occurred on Tuesday Jan. 16 in the Bodeja area of the state, after all relevant authority had concluded forensic investigations.
Alake who had earlier visited the site of the incident and commiserated with victims of the explosion and their families, also visited the University College Hospital, UCH, to see victims receiving treatment in the facility.
He said that President Bola Tinubu and the Presidency were impressed with the way and manner Gov Makinde responded to the explosion incident.
“He has done well in terms of the speed of his response to this unfortunate incident.
“The President is very impressed and we are all impressed too. Nobody wishes for any disaster but we wish that our people will respond commendably to any situation at all. And, on our own part, we immediately swung into action.
“We will allow the investigative agencies, various agencies including technical and intelligence agencies to conclude their forensic investigations before we make any categorical and viable statement on the issue.
“All the corollary issues attending this, will be answered at the end of the investigations and everybody will be kept well-informed.
“And at the end of the day justice would be done, not just to the victims but to the perpetrators and the culprits and whatever assistant that will be needed to be given to Oyo state government, the president will not hesitate to give that.
“But my role here is to come and commiserate with the governor and commend the effective efforts he has put in place immediately after the unfortunate incident.”
” The president has promised to do anything in his power to give succour to the victims,” Alake said.
On his part, Gov. Makinde, maintained that the state government is awaiting the reports of the teams carrying out structural integrity tests on 230 structures around the site of the explosion.
He urged people affected by the incident to exercise patients as government would do all within its power to attend to their needs. (NAN)
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