The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has reacted to the fire incident at Mobil filling station in Ikeja, Lagos.
Daily Sun reported that the aforementioned filling station was gutted by fire on Thursday at 11 am, with a gas tanker, cars and buses affected by the inferno.
Providing clarification in a statement, the Chief Corporate Communications Officer of NNPC Ltd, Olufemi Soneye stated that the explosion had nothing to do with the recently commissioned NNPC Gas Marketing Ltd (NGML)/NIPCO Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Stations.
According to him, they are currently functioning and running safely without any incident.
“The NNPC Ltd also wishes to add that the NGML was not affected by the explosion; it is not involved in the activities of the affected station and all NGML facilities in Lagos, including pipelines, metering stations, above-ground installation and CNG facilities are in safe operating condition,” the statement reads.
