Those blaming govt & poverty shld have a rethink. Its pure greed that killed. For instance, a Guilder truck fell almost 2 months ago & pple rushed it & started stealing it in cartons. They were even fighting over it while d drivers were looking for d nearest police station to get police to protect their products from total loss. The pple over powered d initial 2 regular police dat came. Until Mopol came to the rescue. Is this poverty? Sure no! Its greed. The same greed was extended to petrol which consumed them.

more pics
https://www.nairaland.com/988452/graphic-photos-river-state-fuel

nigerians ar greedy ppl by nature! foget their tribe or religion, that s y ppl n govamnet ar greedy. poor ppl ar greedy, d rich nd influecial ppl ar derived frm d poor, hence greediness continues! as sombdy said, f anotha tanker fall t dat same spot tomorow, ppl will still go dere to scoop fuel!

The love of money is the root of all sort of injurious things.
Greed can be very dangerous. I wont be surprised to hear of another accident of this nature.
People fail to learn.

Government played a part in this incident, due to pot-holed and poorly maintained roads the accident happened and due to [b]poverty [/b]the motorcycle taxi operators died.. If the bolded was intact and in order, this thread won't be in existence.

Idiots...they don't learn

this must be the fault of indians. let's close down the tanker company

I bet the so called 'poor people' rushing to scoop fuel didn't even spare a thought for the driver of that tanker that was probably trapped in his compartment, desperate to be rescued.

There is no such thing as a 1st world nation that is over 60% black in demographics. About 90% of 1st world countries are either over 60% white or East Asian in demographics but when it drops below that it becomes a 2nd world nation or lower. Mexico and many Latin American countries are good examples of this. The more to race than skin color and liberals don't seem to realize that.

^^^What the hell is this nonsense? Please take your stupi.d racist views out of this place. Moro.n.

I'll bet when the tanker stops burning and the smoke clears, all the local villagers will gather together, stand on top of wreckage and pose for photographs in front of the press like they do with every disaster. Never mind the dead corpses scattered about and the toxic fumes, its a chance to be on TV!

Alfoasegh:

How does the location justify the foolishness of the victims?

It doesn't justify anything only trying to make a correction...it happened in Okogbe in Ahoada West LGA of Rivers State and not 200 people, its 100 people

My God! MERCY!

oh i forgot to say they will relax there like roaches , they will breed back in less than a month

alienware: oh i forgot to say they will relax there like roaches , they will breed back in less than a month

This site is for blacks and our friends. We don't need f**king racists like you.

they missed the "NO SMOKING SIGN"

U ALL DONT WANT THE HARD TRUTH

There are lots of issues bedevilling this country. Education comes first. Nigerians are mentally imprisoned.
They need to break free from the psyche of poverty, stupidity, hatred and greed.

Good riddance anyway, these reprobates have nothing to offer to the society in the first place.

These are poverty stricken people in a poorly developed land. I don't blame them for trying to save money to afford feeding their family, I do however blame all of you people poking jokes at the expense of their deaths ..You are all lucky to be born of privledge yet scoff at the less privledged for being poor and laugh at them as though their deaths are entertaining. Karma's a bit"ch and I have a feeling many of you will find that out soon

This is due to negligence on the part of the emergency team. D said tanker as fallen since the night before and the stupid crowd who were blinded by their greed, and without caution from the okada riders among them the heat emission from their machine ignited the fuel which send them all on an un-planned journey of NO RETURN!

humblebee: stupidity!... scooping fuel and who do u blame for their stupidity

GEJ!

ifihearam: Also heard it from gbenga aruleba,but when will Nigerians learn?? Jesse fire outbreak was a very tragic one and now another,I wonder how much they will get compared to their lives.

Is this foolishness or poverty

both

T-smooth:
Nigeria "jaga-jaga". I blame our Government for neglecting their youth. Jonorthern should empower youths instead sitting in Aso rock being controlled by some Northerner. mtcheeew!

. Did he send dem 2 go and scoop fuel from ά̲̣̥ fallen tanker? the foolish ones should rot in hell... I pray the innocent especially d road side traders and travellers shud rest in peace.
WARNING: stop blaming Mr Jonatham 4 every single tin †ђªt happens in Nigeria

nxanadu: u can imagine what poorverty wld cos and its GEJ fault!

gej caused the poverty.caused the accident ,then he told 200ppl to go and start scooping petrol then he lit a match stick nd killed them all?haba nigerians even if rain no fall na gej

Its not in Cross River mbok, it happened in Rivers state

odocity: where exactly did it happen in cross river?(which part of cross river).

. It happened in Rivers state not Cross river state

T-smooth:
Nigeria "jaga-jaga". I blame our Government for neglecting their youth. Jonorthern should empower youths instead sitting in Aso rock being controlled by some Northerner. mtcheeew!

Patience is not a northerner , can't you see? Mumu. Mtcheeew!

My people, why?

I see bodies of seemingly adult people. Why didn't these grown folks understand petrol and it's vapors?

Poverty is one thing, but the pursuit and engagement in risky and unsafe behaviours like these needs to stop.

The victims are totally stupid. No one should sympathise with them. It has happened before at Jesse-Delta State, somewhere in Abia State, in Lagos State; yet people would not learn. Ho much would they sell the fuel they are scooping. Nobody should blame government for this. It is their total foolishness that caused all these.

The Rich man is greedy in nigeria

The poor man is greedy in Nigeria

Who is greedier? Mixed feelings