The magnitude and impact of yesterday's explosion in
Abule Ado area of Amuwo Odofin Local Council Development Area (LCDA) can only
be compared to the Lagos State bomb blast of 2002.
The IPOB Lagos State Media Team, (Spot-on Media), visited
the tragic scene today, 16th day of March, 2020 to have a first-hand
information of what truly transpired. From this scene of inferno, we can
categorically confirm that the height of destruction of lives and properties cannot,
by any imagination, be accurately quantified.
Right in our presence, 24 hours after the explosion,
corpses and human body parts were still being exhumed from the rubbles, and
taken away in ambulances. From what we were seeing here today, there is no
possibility of getting the accurate number of casualties in this very
disheartening scene, because the response from the Government in this critical
time is as negligible as it is questionable, to say the least.
From the information gathered, over 50 bodies have been
recovered from the scene, while hundreds of survivors are spread across
different hospitals. There is certainty that the Death toll could be higher as
rescue operations continue to exhume corpses every hour.
The worst hit from the explosion are Schools and Churches
within the vicinity. In Bethlehem High School, Abule Ado, over 100 students
were victims of the fire and collapsed buildings. The Principal Rev. Sister
Henrietta Alokha died alongside several students as she tried to rescue her
trapped students. There are families that lost their lives because their homes
collapsed.
The impact was more around the Churches and Schools in
the location. So many houses were completely shattered, roof tops blown away.
The destruction was extended to the Trade fair complex where several complexes
were damaged, iron doors of many shops were removed, and forced open by the
impact of the explosion.
It is a fact that each time there is an emergency in
Nigeria, the Government is either too slow to respond, or they are not found in
the scene at all.
Moving around the area which has presently been cordoned
off by the security operatives after 24 hours, one begins to ask, where were
these Security men when the disaster raged yesterday, and left only ordinary
Nigerians without expertise and equipment to do the rescue work?
For the many hours that the resultant fire from the
explosion raged, victims were left in the hands of men who used unorthodox
means to rescue those who were trapped. We appreciate their courage, boldness
and timely service, which, to a large extent, reduced what would have been a
more calamitous scenario.
If not for this team of Voluntary workers, the casualties
at the Bethlehem Catholic Boarding School, would have been multiplied. Where was the Nigeria Emergency Management Agency, NEMA? Where
were the Government ambulances and medical practitioners, whose presence was
needed at that crucial and critical hour?
Where was the Governor of the State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu? He
only came 24 hours after the incident, took pictures and flew to Abuja to
present the evidential photos to his Boss, an alleged impostor at Aso Rock.
Where was the so-called President in all of these? He sat
back in his office to write a short note of condolences to victims. As I make
this compilation, all the victims of the attack are battling in various
hospitals on their personal efforts. The ones whose homes were destroyed have
since relocated to friends or family members. Those who lost their source of
livelihood and properties will never be assisted by Government. It is their
loss, that's how it is in Nigeria. Everything in Nigeria works against the
people especially when the majority of the people affected are Biafrans. The question now is, "what truly caused this massive
explosion that covered over 15 square kilometre distance, to kill People and
destroy properties worth of billions of dollars?
The first-hand information obtained by the States Media
Crew, while interviewing some people living around the area, established firmly
that majority of them dismissed the news of Gas pipeline explosion as a mere
infantile and hollow diversionary fabrication. They are of the opinion that it
was clearly a well-planned and clinically executed Terror attack, targeted mainly
at the Christians, almost all of whom are, Biafrans, considering that the area
is dominated by Christian Biafrans.
A very insignificant number of people said that the
explosion was basically caused by Gas explosion from a Gas cylinder leakage
underground, which ignited NNPC pipeline and there was a combined explosion. (This
view lacks merit and coherence in all its ramifications).
Another account said the explosion occurred after a truck
got stuck on a Gas pipeline of the NNPC, thereby igniting the underground
pipeline, leading to the explosion that shook as far and wide as 15 square kilometres
(This view is equally as fallacious as it is untenable).
From our findings, we of the Lagos IPOB media Crew, can
strongly establish that there was a sabotage in what happened here yesterday.
It must not be forgotten that a few days before what is
now clearly a terror attack, Nigeria's Chief of Army Staff, Gen Tukur Buratai,
began to inform the world of the impending attack in Lagos, by veiling the
information under the cover of the fact that "BOKO HARAM IS NOW IN
LAGOS". We Biafrans understood this coded information, and told Lagos to
get ready. Unfortunately, earlier than expected, and in line with the
characteristic dismissive approach of Nigerians to the warnings of IPOB, the
people were caught unprepared.
It is unfortunate that we cannot get the truth from the
Government because they will never come up with any tangible report. In
Nigeria, we have seen hundreds of similar attacks by Boko Haram Terrorists, and
NO TRUTH has ever emerged in all their reports.
We strongly demand an immediate disintegration of
Nigeria, as that is the only solution that will end these incessant Terrorist
attacks by Boko Haram, Fulani Herdsmen, ISIS West Africa, and Al Qaeda in the
Maghreb, all under the sponsorship of the Fulani Janjaweed government of
Nigeria, under the supervision of the government of Britain.
Reported by:
Mazi Emeka Oguduru, Mazi Chukwudi Okeke & Mazi
Onyekachi Orji
For: Lagos State Media
Written by:
Ngozichukwu Ada-Dav
For: Lagos State Media
Edited by:
Okwunna Okongwu
For: Lagos State Media
Published by:
Chibuike John Nebeokike
For: Lagos State Media
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