THE NNPC DEPOT IN MINNA GUUTED BY FIRE

The Depot of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in  Minna, caught  fire yesterday. It is alleged that  leakages from the pipes from the Depot which was seen on Saturday night before some black marketers stormed the area and started scooping fuel from the leaking pipes which later caught fire. There has been no causality
 The  security Agencies including the Police, Civil Defence and Niger State Emergency Agency, (NSEMA) were present to spread to the main Depot and also kept the miscreants away from further scooping.

Director General, Niger State Emergency Agency (NSEMA), Ahmed Ibrahim Inga spoke with newsmen and said,”we thank God everything has returned to nomalcy. Thank God that we alerted people quickly and we were able to arrest the situation and that was why there are no casualties and we have also started evacuation and things are going on well".

Further, “there are no casualties for now, we are just trying to see that the fire goes down totally and then our men will go round to access what the situation is. The scooping of fuel by hoodlums actually took place in the tank farm where the leakage started from but not as a result of bunkering”