FCT Fire Service Seeks Stiffer Penalty To Curb Petrol Station Infernos

The FCT Fire Service has called for an amendment to its fire prevention and fighting laws, to provide for stiffer enforcement and punishment for Petrol Station owners who violate safety rules.  

Director and Controller of the Service,  Engr. Sani Saidu on Monday, decried the weakness of the existing laws, lamenting it was not enough to curtail the level of negligence by operators.

Saidu stated that despite its routine, fire inferno at Petrol stations around the nation’s capital has continued to increase.  

He noted that while the service has intensified its monitoring and supervision at the petrol stations,  it has become necessary to ask for an amendment to the existing legislation.  

According to him, the standard best practice of allowing a truck loaded with petroleum products that just arrived at its destination to cool down before discharging has always been flouted thereby resulting in the incessant fire outbreaks in filling stations.