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Nollywood Actress Slams FG On The Outcome Of Abule Ado Explosion
Nollywood actress Nkiru Umeh slams the Federal Government over the way it is handling the Abule Ado explosion.
The actress drew the attention of Nigerians to the situation via her Instagram account on Thursday.
In her words, she pointed out that some government officials are bribing the victims of the Abule Ado explosion in Festac rather than compensating them for their losses.
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Umeh said, breaking down the remains of the building of the victims who lost their properties, is traumatizing and alleging that the government is supposed to give victims an option to sell off their properties to make money from the sale.
She wrote on social media;
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“After losing over N200m worth of properties and goods. No compensation from the government. Yet they are heartless enough to be traumatizing the already traumatized residents by showing up to demolish the remains of their buildings and refuse to leave the broken blocks and rods from their own buildings built with their hard work.
”Why not let the owners of these buildings at least sell these stuff and make some money. All the properties lost to the Abule ado Festac explosion, no compensation yet. Then stop disturbing them with your bulldozers damn it.
”Imagine negotiating with a government official on how much to pay for you to leave the remains of blocks and rods from your own building. They demolish and sell it all. That’s the business that has been going on in Abule ado Festac.
”The owners of the buildings didn’t even get to sell even broken blocks from their buildings. They sold it all yet no compensation to anyone. Your pipeline freaking destroyed peoples properties. I weep for this country.”
The Abule-Ado explosion was an accidental explosion and fire that occurred in the Abule-Ado area around Festac Town, Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area, Lagos State.
The explosion and fire started around 9 am on 15 March 2020.
The Nigerian National Emergency Management Agency announced that as of 15 March 2020, the number of casualties was 15 persons dead and 25 injured persons with 50 houses destroyed.
These included the students and the facilities at the Bethlehem Girls College, Abule-Ado, which was destroyed.
The school principal of Bethlehem Girls’ College at Abule Ado area of Lagos, Henrietta Alokha, died while trying to save her students from the inferno at the school.
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