Lagos State Ministry of Justice said yesterday
that the police had traced to Kano, the owner of a petrol tanker that exploded
last June 27 on the Otedola bridge in Lagos, killing 12 people.
Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice
Mr Adeniji Kazeem (SAN) said there was, however, uncertainty as to whether the
truck driver died in the fire.
Kazeem, who spoke in Ikeja, Lagos, at a parley
with reporters, said the government had yet to fulfil its promise to prosecute
the perpetrators of the disaster because the police had not availed it off the
report of its investigation.
The Otedola bridge fire incident occurred at
about 5pm on the Otedola bridge at the Lagos end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
when a tanker carrying 33,000 litres of petrol, fell, leaked and exploded,
killing 12 people.
The inferno that ensued destroyed over 50
vehicles and caused gridlock for hours.
Kazeem said: “We said we were going to
prosecute the persons that caused that disaster. One of the challenges then was
how to identify the perpetrators of that crime. We had said the driver and the
owner needed to be identified.
“There were all kinds of stories out there,
including whether the driver had died in the fire or not. The owners, as we
understand, were traced by the police to Kano.
“The whole idea was that at the end of the
day, they would conclude their investigation and get us the file here in the
ministry. Unfortunately, we can’t do the investigation ourselves, so that we
can begin prosecution.
“Unfortunately that process has not yet been
concluded or is not conclusive yet. Until we get that file, we cannot proceed
with prosecution.”
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