People’s Advocacy Organisation of Nigeria (PAON) has faulted the siting of a fuel station along the busy airport road in Benin, Edo State, southern Nigeria.

PAON said in a petition that the station was capable of igniting fire disaster.

The non-governmental organisation said, ‘That the land upon which the fuel and gas station is situated is measuring 70 feet by 80 feet, which is below the approvable measurement of the Regulations of the Edo State Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, and also against the extant Regulations of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), for a fuel/gas station.

‘That the Benin Airport Transmission line is above the land upon which the fuel and gas station is situated, which is inflammable, poses a great danger to public and private properties and lives of citizens, is capable of igniting a huge fire disaster that could claim the lives of hundreds of people and is against the extant regulations on the siting of fuel and gas stations, anywhere in Nigeria’.

But the owner of the station, Andrew‎ Momodu, dismissed the claim of the NGO, saying he has approval from both DPR and Edo State Ministry of Physical Planning for the project.

Source: Daily Sun

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