With the bursting of Ije-Ododo pipeline in Lagos state by vandals Monday night, products distribution to Lagos and other states in the South West, may be hampered and thereby worsen lingering fuel crisis in Lagos and the adjoining states in the days ahead.
Ije Ododo line is directly from Atlas Cove which supplies products to Mosimi while Atlas Cove is a key supply facility to Mosimi, that distributes products to other parts of south west zone.
Some suspected oil thieves reportedly cut off a part of the Ije-Ododo pipeline in Lagos state, prompting the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC), to shut down the facility.
National Mirror reliably gathered that Officials Ije Ododo and Arepo axis in Ogun State, have been very volatile and fraught to criminal attacks in recent times.
The Group Manager Public Affairs of the Corporation, Ohi Alegbe, said that plans were being made to investigate the incident.
Updating the public on the incident, the National Emergency Management Agency's (NEMA's) spokesperson in the South West zone, Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye, said that in order to avert spilling of products and worsening of the fire outbreak in the affected area, the flows had been shut down and the valves also locked.
He confirmed that fire service and other emergency services had arrived the scene to put off the raging fire, adding that the terrain however remained difficult access due to its swampy topography.
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