Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna state Monday ordered the closure of all gas retailing and decanting outlets located within residential areas in the state, while appealing to residents to report such illegal outlet for immediate action.
This is just as the Kaduna state Police command identified and released the names of five of the six people killed in Saturday’s gas explosion in Sabo Tasha, Kaduna, while quantifying the property loss as worth N16.4 million
The Department of Petroleum Resources had Sunday declared that the gas retailing outlet was operating illegally without license, but Governor el-Rufai who visited scene of the gas explosion at Sabon Tasha, said the gas plants, gas retailers and decanting outlets would be relocated to industrial layouts.
“It is most unfortunate that this incident has happened. It is further proof and evidence that this is high risk activity that should not be allowed to be located in residential areas. We will relocate them. We will give them land in industrial areas where adequate precautions to prevent things like this will be put in place.
“But for now, we have to get all these gas refilling plants within the metropolis and towns relocated. We are mapping all of them, we have already given directives that all such outlet should be shut down,,” the governor said.
