At least 90 people including women and children were burnt to death early today Thursday July 12th while scooping fuel from a fallen tanker at Okobe in Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State. The fuel tanker crashed into some vehicles and fell, spilling its content but didn't immediately burst into flames. Unfortunately it exploded when residents of the area went to the scene to scoop fuel from the tanker.
Rivers State police spokesman Ben Ugwuegbulam explained:
Early this morning a tanker loaded with petrol fell in Okogbe and people trooped to the scene obviously to scoop the spilled fuel and suddenly there was fire resulting in casualties
A team of police officers, soldiers and emergency workers were dispatched to the scene, where burnt bodies were removed.
Greediness & it's consequences! May their souls rest in peace SMH. *amrra*
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's greed.....it is poverty and illiteracy cos anyone would know that the tanker could explode @ anytime.
Delete#amnothappyaboutthisatall.
ReplyDeleteWhat is going on?
hunger is at the root of this.uncalculated risk.
ReplyDeleteMay their soul rest in peace. Amen
(linda pls post my comments o, ehn ehn).....
ReplyDeletewhat do people never learn? i dont even know whether to feel sorry for them, it's not d first time this is happening and it always ends in tragedy, are these people going to say they don't know that??? anyways the situation of the country demands that people resort to desperate measures to survive. what can i say... really sad.
Pls Y̶̲̥̅̊o̶̲̥̅̊и̣̣̣̣̥ can't say that,comparing the level of your comfort to theirs is A̶̲̥̅ parallel tin D̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ neva meet!
DeleteJus pray 4 dem!
I know its hard for so many,but,really,why is it that some of us never learn?History always has a way of repeating itself.This is so pathetic!What a waste...Scoop fuel much?One would rather this over life?God rest their...
ReplyDeletepeople dont listen. u gamble with ur lives at the expense of?????
ReplyDeletei dnt even have an iota of pity for them.
sad tho
I know its hard for some,but,really,why is it that some of us never learn?History always has a way of repeating itself,and this is bad history been mads.This is so pathetic.Scoop fuel much?One would rather this over life?God rest their...
ReplyDeletethats a country which produce their own fuel bt the people have 2 resort 2 scoop fuel 2 earn a living for the day..while the top officials just scoop the loaded cash
ReplyDeletesad and this is what poverty has caused
ReplyDeleteI know we Nigerians r stubborn and we never learn but it is only poverty that will make a man leave his house to scoop fuel from an accident scene. May their soul rest in peace. God help Naija
ReplyDeleteIt soo sad, na how many ppl remain for 9ija? #justasking#
ReplyDeletei see poverty play a big role here,God helps us learn frm d past.
ReplyDeletePURE POVERTY.
ReplyDeleteWHEN WILL WE EVER LEARN...
ReplyDeleteSad yet very annoying.
ReplyDelete@BLOGLORD you are very stupid for saying what you said. have you ever been in poverty before i guess not then you would not know what it is like to live without having 3 meals a day so just shut up next time if you know you have nothing tangible or sympathetic to say okay.
ReplyDeleteHaba!dats harsh now.she doesn't hav to share ur view on d issue..
DeleteFurious
Delete@Anonymous July 12, 2012 2:24 PM sometin dey worry u big time. To dey insult just come easy gbam for ur mouth abi.
Pray, what exactly was wrong with Bloglord's post? She wasn't being insensitive. Not in the least. If with the numerous deaths that's occured over the years with fuel tankers exploding shouldn't even the most poverty stricken person learn?
Now that they are dead, how has it made their situation any better? Were they not better in the condition they found themselves than the fire's just consumed their lives?
Guy, whoever you be make u get some life abeg. E be like say deductive reasoning dey hard u. Just take time think before u start to yab.
What Are you saying my Dear, No matter what should you risk your life. If you pity them,then you can as well pity an armed robber that takes someone's life to survive too.
DeleteMay their soul rest in peace
ReplyDeleteOMA GA OOO
ReplyDeleteIf another tanker falls nw nw people wil stil go 4 d fuel. It's a pity we allow poverty 2 direct our senses in Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteu call ur self stupid. and stupidity personified at that.
ReplyDeleteif u urself is so poor for example, y dont u go and scoop fuel too?????ok, u wouldnt do tht right? its risky! good.
did u even read my comment properly before opening ur gutter mouth?
just incase u dont understand simple english, i was pointing at the fact that they gambled with their lives.
Bloglord dont mind that fool talking dust mchewwwwww
DeleteU sef get energy to ans that person. Some ppl are really not worth d effort or time.
DeleteYou and Anon-wareva both have poverty related issues..attacking urselves like hungry ppl. 90ppl just died,just shut up n pray for their souls.V
Deleteshameful death...may der soul rest in peace..chai...
ReplyDeleteit is a pity, this what greediness is causing..No matter the hardship our life is paramount
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at the person saying someone is stupid wassunu cracking? you dont need to be insultive.there is a line between poverty and greed.and this is greed.so becos of poverty i should start dealing in human parts
ReplyDeleteOh dear! This is what I term 'Third world disaster'. A disaster mostly likely to occur in poor countries due to Poverty or low standard of living. My thoughts are with the families of the deceased. #SadMuch
ReplyDeleteexposure and education, this two words changed my life a little, i remember a day back then in nigeria me and my friend were going out, few minute outside his street we saw a tanker carrying kerosene in our very eyes the tanker had an accident and we rushed back to his house and changed our cloths to rag just to get gas,
ReplyDeletenow imagine that scene we didn't call police, or any emergency service, we never thought of death neither did we think of that tank exploding. what a risk i can understand what poverty had done to my early child hood. (11 year old boy)
your trying to get your mother gas to support her (stealing from an accident scene) and when we got back she thanked us. what a shame.
Poverty blind forded my guilt and sense of risk(not putting other things in consideration). who are we going to blame here? the government? or our parents? the society you were born or grow even live determine the kind of death you would die either by mistake or other wise
i don't want to bore you guys or change the topic . R.I.P to all the victim of this uneducated society .
Same ignorance almost killed me
@bloglord pls hlp me tell dat oshi 2 shut if she doesn't understand proper english.pple will jst be lookyn 4 avenue 2 be noticed. Yeye fowl...mchew
ReplyDeleteAll things being equal Bloglord, I think it aint proper to say yu had no iota of pity for them#justsaying#
ReplyDeleteEven thou am dying today of hunger i swear i can never go near a scene of accident where fuel is involve.dis is soo ANNOYING.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous 2.24 why are you attacking OUR BLOGLORD.... You are the stupid one , isnt hunger better than been burnt to death . Poverty is no excuse to go scooping fuel , if them no see fuel that day them no go continue life.
ReplyDelete***May God deliver us from poverty AMEN AMEN . Please note that upgrading from poverty and greed-stupidity are two different things . May their souls rest in peace , sadly naija never learn as history keep repeating itself
Such disasters are not unusual in Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteNigeria is a major oil exporter, but millions of its citizens live in poverty.
I second u blog lord, after the Jesse crisis one would think people would have learnt. There's NO excuse for their actions not even poverty, whats with this forum and been on the throat of those who speak their mind? Everyone has a right to their opinion else Linda won't even post them as controversial as some are.
ReplyDeleteWith that said, you can correct someone or counter what someone says without insulting them.
Anon 2.24pm I hope you read this.
Crashes are common on Nigeria's pot-holed and poorly maintained roads, and in a region where most people live on less than USD 2 a day the chance to collect spilling petrol is too much of a temptation, despite the high risk of fires.
ReplyDeleteThe east-west road, which runs across the oil-producing region, has been scheduled for development for almost a decade and money is allocated for it in the budget each year.
Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer, is plagued by corruption and inefficiency. Most years only about half budgeted programs are implemented... Yahoo News... Shewen!!
just look at what greediness can cause
ReplyDeletehow will u see death and gladly walk into it? bet some of these pple dnt hv cars or even generators. see how they wasted their lives for nth. when ignorance meets greed the result is not always pleasant. all d same may their souls RIP.
ReplyDeleteI suspect boko haram, investigation will show the driver is aboki. Anayways may their souls RIP.
ReplyDeleteThis is sad... And really I dunno why I don't feel sorry for the victims. Let's leave poverty out of this, only a man alive can eat. This has NEVER ended well. Don't know why these people thought they could be the exception. Smh
ReplyDeleteGosh, they just waste their life for nothing
ReplyDeletevery sad event.dat is subsidy for U. @ N97 per liter and no electricity, with the rate of poverty, U need all the fuel U can get. I comisserate with their family. But the risk they took was too much. For the living lesson for us. History will surely judge all of us.
ReplyDeleteThis is serious........Oh wat a Poignant day.............
ReplyDelete@ anon 2:24
ReplyDeleteU're silly 4 attackin bloglord!! Who begged them 2 go & scoop fuel? Yes times are hard but tell me if u were in their shoes wud u go 2 scoop fuel, even when u know the risks involved. The thing is ppl will never hear/learn from others. They'll always think theirs will be d different case!!! And by the way I don't feel sorry for them either!!! They knew better than 2 go close 2 d tanker
this is serrriiiooousss..............RIP to dem all........WHAT A POIGNAT CASE..........
ReplyDeleteWhen will we ever learn that fuel goes with fire, is just invisible.
ReplyDeleteMy heart goes out to the victims and affected.
Oga o......Calamity and bad news per second billing! Have mercy o God!
ReplyDeleteBLOGLORD, just 1 sentence for you,- pray never to be hungry.
ReplyDeleteTola I believe you are a lady. So if you are hungry as you said, and the only solution around is to sleep with a lion to get money,so you will do that.
DeleteBut this commodity suppose to be a blessing to us; just thinking aloud.
ReplyDeleteFiremen passd our vehicle this mornin in Choba, on my way to skool.From portharcourt to Okobe is about 1hr-30mins. Is crazy, that there is no fire service in Ahoada main town, which is abt 45mins drive to Okobe.I was just so worried cos that is next to my place.I blame all that went for the scooping, I also blame the government.The damages was far done before the service men got there.....GALAXY!!!
ReplyDeleteBloglord ur father there is when you are in such a situation u will know what to do. Sometimes u think and comment like a mad woman.idiot retard fool bloglord my ass
ReplyDeletewhy would they do that? RIP
ReplyDelete@Bloglord or whatever u call urself,isn't it enough already u blamed them for scooping fuel from a fallen tanker to their detriment,must u let us no u av no iota of sympathy for them,I guess it adds more grace to ur Lordship? Whe talking about paying the ultimate price here(death) and u open ur johnbull mouth utter inconsiderate statements,u even hac the guts to attack d person dat tried calling u to order. Tell me d job u do and imma tell u d risk associated. Try appreciate human life,till u prove u can make a single hair grow smh for u JOHNBULL~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA3310.
ReplyDelete@Bloglord or whatever u call urself,isn't it enough already u blamed them for scooping fuel from a fallen tanker to their detriment,must u let us know u av no iota of sympathy for them,I guess it adds more glory to ur Lordship? Whe talking about paying the ultimate price here(death) and u open ur johnbull mouth utter inconsiderate statements,u even had the guts to attack d person dat tried calling u to order. Tell me d job u do and imma tell u d risk associated. Try appreciate human life,till u prove u can make a single hair grow smh for u JOHNBULL~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA3310.
ReplyDeleteThat is greediness so i can't feel sorry for them because its not the first time this kind of incident has occur in Nigeria. That is the consequence of greediness.
ReplyDeleteGod Help This Nation
ReplyDeleteReally sad indeed,poverty all the way
ReplyDeleteWho is to blame?
ReplyDeleteWhy willpeople do these to themselves?,they just never learn.smh..
ReplyDeleteHmm ... poverty is the root of all this mishap.
ReplyDeletepeople just loose their sense of reasoning. mtsheeewwww
Illiteracy should be illegal!
ReplyDeleteI blame the Nigerian govt! If there was light and good quality education all these would not take place..
"scooping fuel" at the scene of an accident! Absolutley ridiculous
Nigerian leads keep killing in hundreds daily! God is watching you all..
may their soul RIP
@ 2:24 PM , easy before you call someone stupid . Na you con sound stupid.
ReplyDeleteI am with BLOGLORD and another Anony that said Nigerians allow poverty 2 direct our senses .... Been poor and hungry is not an excuse to scoop fuel, biko . Why do we nigeiran like FREE Things so much. This accident ,is just senseless , borderline greed and can result in huge consequences. Even innocent passby can get caught in the fire as Fuel fire is hard to control and spreads. I have many poor relative in naija and will tell them to run fast to the opposite direction. A fallen tanker spilling fuel is no fast ticket to 3 daily meals, BIKO
May their souls rest in peace but this was an avoidable death. We all need to stop been greedy , its not only politicans but everyone of us in that country . Person see fuel on the road and thinks its a way to make money
This is soo sad, and the fact that children where involved. What is this country turning into.
ReplyDeleteI am sure people in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other oil producing nations that actually do something for their people with the oil money would not have resorted to such actions. SMH at our government that allow this sort of things to happen b/c of their "me, myself and I" attitudes. Imagine, if people can go to school for free the way other oil producing nation do. God help us.
ReplyDeleteGEJ's administration the most bloody administration since civil war. Right or wrong? The people are hungry. RIP guys
ReplyDeleteanonymous July 12, 2012 5:07 PM
ReplyDeleteGod bless u much! it baffles me how someone will just open his or her mouth to throw careless insult without reading to understand.
so becos one is poor, it automatically makes d person's reasoning poor too?
maybe anonymousJuly 12, 2012 2:24 PM can as well put his/her hand in hot oil with eyes wide open.
thank u my dear anonymous bro/sis jaweee
July 12, 2012 5:07 PM the simple point i was making is if you know you have no sympathy to give in an incident like that then say nothing okay as it was a very sad event and now was not the time to start saying they deserved to die nonsense....
ReplyDelete@ BLOGLORD shut up who needs your explanation nonsense
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 2.33pm.y call sum1 vry stupid ,I don't see any bad in wat he said,so cos s so much poverty in d country,does dat mean pple shld not tink b4 riskin dey life foolishly 4 ow mch fuel?n u difntly didn't read he s comment vry well b4 insultin him,
ReplyDeleteMary
ReplyDeleteThose of you insulting BLOGLORD is the reason why naija is so messed up. Firstly he/she didn't say anything wrong otHerthan pointing how stupid the whole accident was. **Bloglord Never stated they deserve to die. Learn to read properly
Its very unfortunate and I feel sad seeing the pictures but POVERTY is not an excuse to scoop fuel na . RIP to all
Dr Pinch u r very right! Oga Jona's administration is blood sucking, either by coincidence or intent I don't care on their heads it will land
ReplyDelete@ NONSO said... 3.04. Thanks for sharing your story. We pray that God will continue to bless us so we wont experience poverty. I pray for a better naija that will help eliminate the hunger of our people . This administration has only brought BAD LUCK
ReplyDelete@ Mary I guess u're more english than the english, permit me to call uFLORA LUGARD SHAW, u're the only one that understood the inconsiderate terms used by ur bloglord in his comment ''I don't even av any iota of pity for them'' av u been to any burial where ill was said of d dead, over 90 people lost their lives and u av d effontery to buttress ur inhuman reactions,heard u say poverty aint an excuse to be foolish, I guess ur shallow thinking and narrow brain told u they did it for fun. Hmmm now u consider urself comfortable. UR FADA DOESN'T OWN A CAR BUT U WANT GOVT TO BAN OKADA. smh for u bloglord and ur supporters.~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA3310.
ReplyDeletethis is not a bakery! i dont sugarcoat anything. if u ask for my opinion...then thats wat u'll get. no toppings, no currant, no flavours.
ReplyDeletedont be mad when its not what u want to hear.
it is wat it is! my opinion!