Some residents of Lagos State yesterday threw warning to the winds and stormed the scene of a fallen tanker carrying 33,000 litres of groundnut oil that crashed close to Abiola Garden on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway disrupting visitors move.
As the residents scooped the oil from the bottom, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) warned them towards consuming or promoting the scooped oil as a result of it had been contaminated by grime, highway pollution and substances from drainage channels.
The company in an announcement posted on X mentioned preliminary safety reviews prompt that brake failure might need prompted the tanker to overturn.
According to the LASTMA normal supervisor, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, the company was extra involved that folks had been gathering the spilled oil from the highway and drainage channels with out figuring out whether or not it was secure for consumption.
Bakare-Oki appealed to the residents to not take the oil residence for cooking or promote it to unsuspecting patrons, warning that attainable contamination posed a threat to public well being.
The company mentioned it deployed its rescue and restoration group and two heavy-duty tow automobiles to take away the tanker and clear the highway.
LASTMA mentioned the police, Federal Road Safety Corps, Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service and Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Agency additionally responded.
Meanwhile, a truck had earlier crashed at Berger Bus Stop, inward Kara Bridge, within the Ojodu space of Lagos, leaving 5 individuals critically injured.
LASTMA defined that the accident which occurred on Tuesday concerned a 40-foot HOWO truck and two business buses—a Mazda bus travelling between states and a Toyota Hiace bus.
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