Another Fuel Blast In Lagos:

There goes again another fuel blast,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6209845.stm

Another result of OBJ reforms, in a country with $40billion external reserve, citizen still scooping fuel from pipeline

@All,
Well, it's quite unfortunate and my prayers are with the families affected. But with an estimated 70% of the population living below the poverty line; unemployment among the economically viable age-group estimated at >60%; and a general abysmally poor human development index, wealth distribution, national planning etc etc, news like this will continue breaking from Nigeria. It's sad but unavoidable. So much for the Heart of Africa project.

Sad but again, one must ask; why would anyone for whatsoever reasons engage in a potentially fatal venture like scooping fuel from a ruptured or vandalised pipeline given the fact that Nigeria had witnessed similar scenarios that ended in fatalities in the past?

While we sympathize with the victims it is equally important for Nigerians to avoid acts that could end their lives in the most terrible ways as dead men don't dream neither do they hope for a better tomorrow.

We must learn to accept responsibility of our actions whether right or wrong, the blame game may be convenient for some but it certainly isn't the best or most effective.

Could you please answer the following question honestly?

Will you scoop fuel from a vandalised or ruptured pipeline for any reasons knowing what you know today about the dangers inherent in such activities?

If your answer is in the negative then I wonder what purpose you want to achieve with your position that has refused to apportion blame appropriately.

@mamaput,

Sound advice: Never go near a ruptured pipeline.

Question: Weren't innocent people affected by the blasts as well? I believe the blast took place in a dense population area. Some reports actually gave a head count of over 700 and still counting dead. May God help us in that country.

erm there was fuel before the festive period!

If people don't vandalize the pipelines, there might not be fuel shortages during the festive period, why would the government deliberately create shortages, i don't get the way people think sometimes.

This country sef

TayoD if you were poor and living in such an area.
Are you telling me you will go and buy.
We know its something that should not been done , but thats Nigeria.
In my schooldays we used to break open old battries because the inside was good to blacken the blackboard.We used to play with asbestos,Okey not as bad as the pipelines.
But if we were there we will be doing it. Because everyobe is doing it.
I may not break one, But i would have followed other people to tap

Some petti traders to sell it at the roadside, some follow ,follow for their own use(then its for free) ofcause many that did not even know what is going on.(as in the wrong place at the wrong time)

I grew up using wood to cook and bake so i would not brake a pipline if that is all i needed it for, however if there were free fuel and it would make life easier for me and my family, sweetie i would risk it, not being greedy to full ten barrel just enough and i would be out of there.

poverty  make honest people do dishonest things.

Not good enough @ coco

explain !!!!


what flaw?

in other parts of the world the pipelines are underground

mamaput
The things you were doing in those days were not becuase you wanted to feed anybody
no other persons life was at risk


Actually, the BP pipelines in canada/alaska* that were closed earlier this year werent underground, the pipeline being built from uzbekistan/kazakstan or somewhere in the that region through turkey isnt underground

i love my nigeria, something new, usually bad, every other day,
just when an adhoc committee sitting on one breaking news is about to submit it's report, something entirely new happens.

soon a new panel of enquiry, soon life returns to normal for most of us but not the affected ones, soon the victims will become villains as they are arrested for trying to survive this nigeria,

where is frank, my frank information maestro, who will listen to him now? the international newswires are awash with this story, what will he say, who will he blame now? ATIKU?

where is soludo, the foreign reserve guru? rumour has it this fuel scarcity started because the FG was owing the oil majors 18billion naira (140 million dollars), now the if game will start, if, if, if only they had paid, how much is a nigerian life worth?

do the maths, 10 liters of fuel = 2500 naira today(black market price)  10 liters of fuel = 650 naira two weeks ago(fuel pump price). a man retrenched from the nitel, npa or any other gov agency without gratuity calculates how much  food he can provide his family by scooping  only 100 liters (25 000 naira), what would you di if you were in his shoes? life is risk, no risk no success or what the hell!!!!!

finally, check out this term>>TACHYPHYLAXIS, medical term which describes a gradual attenuation of the effects produced by a drug following repeated exposures to that drug, compare that term to the nigerian situation now, my warri people will say, WE DON SEE SOTEY NOTHING FIT SHAKE US AGAIN, God bless and deliver us from us.

you have a point.
At the end of the day its greed.
But lets ask ourselves how far from harmless "Tapping of pen" we would have gone if our people were poor as in POOR

Sorry oo! 

That's Nigeria for u.