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<\/p>\nSen. Emmanuel Orker-Jev (PDP Benue North\/ West), who moved the motion on Thursday in plenary urged his colleagues to take steps that would end incessant petrol tanker explosion in the country.<\/p>\n
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that an explosion of a Petroleum Tanker in Ahumbe in Gwer East Local Government of Benue had occurred on July 1, killing several people.<\/p>\n
Oker-Jev, in his motion narrated how driver of the tanker had lost control after trying to dodge a pothole at a dilapidated portion of a Federal high way along Markurdi -Aliade Otukpo, leading to the incident.<\/p>\n
He said the villagers defied the warning from security personnel and were scooping fuel from the fallen tanker when a passenger bus maneuvering its way scratched its exhaust pipe which sparked the fire.<\/p>\n
According to him,the fire killed 50 people while over 100 others secured various degrees of injury.<\/p>\n
He said that many of the people injured were in critical conditions at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital, Makurdi.<\/p>\n
According to him, valuable properties including houses, shops were also destroyed.<\/p>\n
The senator also called for a review of the road worthiness in the country.<\/p>\n
After extensive debate on the motion, the Senate resolved to set up a standing committee that will liase with relevant agencies to identify remote and immediate causes of petroleum tanker explosion in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
The Senate also resolved that the committee when constituted, would have eight weeks to recommend appropriate and sustainable solutions to the Senate.<\/p>\n
It also commiserated with the people and Government of Benue over the ugly incident.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Senate has urged the National Emergency Agency (NEMA), and the Federal Ministry of Health to urgently assist victims and families undergoing medical attention in different hospitals following a petrol tanker explosion in Venue. Sen. Emmanuel Orker-Jev (PDP Benue North\/ West), who moved the motion on Thursday in plenary urged his colleagues to take steps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3,4],"tags":[35,62,351,6422],"class_list":["post-132988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","category-politics","tag-benue","tag-politics","tag-senate","tag-senators"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}