Tanker Explosion Destroys Houses, Shops In Ogun...Abiodun Sympathizes With Victims.. Sues For Calm

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No fewer than 10 houses and shops  have been destroyed in an early hours  explosion on  Saturday, caused by a petrol tanker at Matogun Area of Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun state.

Governor Dapo Abiodun reacting to the incident, expressed his heart-felt sympathy to the victims of the explosion 

Abiodun, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Kunle Somorin, on Saturday, described the incidentt as unfortunate.

The governor, who thanked God that no life was lost in the explosion, however, expressed grief at the level of destruction of people's property.

Abiodun explained that such an unforeseen incident was one of the reasons his administration decided to embark on the reconstruction of the Ijoko-Alagbole-Lambe-Akute Road, despite the huge amount of public fund sunk into the road  without completion by the immediate past administration.

While suing for calm among the residents of the Matogun and its environs, the governor assured that work would be expedited on the road to forestall such an incident and to make life of the people in the axis comfortable.

Abiodun, who reiterated his administration's commitment to making the people of Ogun State enjoy the real dividends of democracy, stated that palliative assistance would be rendered to those who lost their property to the inferno, with the view of mitigating their losses. 

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