Install Fire Extingushiers In Your Home To Avoid Explosion- Lawmakers Tell Nigerians

Members of the House of Representatives have advised Nigerians to get fire extinguishers in their homes to avoid an explosion.

The lawmakers also suggested that Nigerians get gas leakage detectors in their homes.

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Moving the motion at the Thursday plenary session of the House of Representatives, Ben Kalu pointed out that there were no facilities for “for requalification, certification, and re-certification of gas cylinders in Nigeria.”

Making reference to gas explosions that had happened in time past, Kalu blamed the explosions on the failure of the side of Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) to enforce standards.

“Failure to enforce standards, failure to clamp down on violators and failure to prevent citing of gas stations and refill outlets in residential areas by regulatory bodies, including the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON).

“In order to curb the domestic production and importation of substandard and fake gas cylinders, the then Director-General of Standards Organisation of Nigeria, Dr. Joseph Odumodu, in 2014, assured Nigerians of the implementation of a new policy on the ownership of gas cylinders;

“Six years after the conception of the policy, the Federal Government is yet to commence the implementation of the new policy on ownership of cylinders in Nigeria while the production and importation of fake and substandard cylinders continue unabated while lives have been lost to the same problem which the proposed policy would have solved,” he said.

It will be recalled that the lawmakers were earlier in the news after inviting President Buhari over the rising issue of insecurity in the country.

Buhari who initially revealed that he will be appearing before the lawmakers made a u-turn after his meeting with state governors.