Ifeanyi Ubah calls for measures to ensure that fuel tankers meet necessary requirements before using the road

Anambra South Senator and National Leader of the Young Progressive Party (YPP), Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah on Thursday, urged the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and other relevant agencies to ensure that every Tanker meant for transportation of petrol meets the required standard in other to reduce the rate of fuel tanker explosions in the country. Senator Ubah made this known while speaking on a Motion, “Benue Tanker explosion: Urgent need to curb incessant explosion of Petroleum Tankers in Nigeria”, sponsored by Senator Emmanuel Y. Orker-jev of Benue North-West Senatorial District. According to Senator Ubah, as a dealer of Petroleum products and owner of fuel tankers, he is knowledgeable of the fact that such explosions will rarely occur if various tankers meant for petrol transportation met the required standard. He further said that many fuel Tankers using the roads lack tamper and leakage proofs therereby resulting to leakages and rampant explosions.

The YPP Senator further urged the Senate Leadership to set up an Ad-hoc Committee to look into the matter in order to prevent another occurrence.