WARRI/Nigeria: A commercial tricycle popularly known as keke suspected to be conveying scores of jerry cans of illegally refined kerosene recently burnt to ashes due to yet to be identified complications on the ever busy NPA Warri / Effurun Express Way by the New Port.
Reports say it took the swift response of the Fire Service of nearby New Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) to put the fire under control.
The incident was said to be one out of many that had occurred on the said road involving commercial buses (kelebe) conveying giant size Jerry cans or drums containing locally refined diesel and kerosene.
Some resident noted that policemen were usually on patrol and on countless checkpoints watching out for vehicles conveying the illegally refined petroleum products but expressed dissatisfaction that such ugly incidents keep occurring on the said road.
Commenting on the ugly development, a passenger, Alex Imonisa who was in the said commercial bus with our correspondent wonders what the police men were doing with vehicles conveying the illegally refined petroleum products on the said as he lamented that illegally refined petroleum products especially kerosene have claimed lives of many and destroyed many valuable properties through explosions.
While a Warri based public analyst, Comrade Comrade Akpojotor Adjarho suggested that the local refineries should be legalized since their products were cheaper, adding however, “Experts should be employed to assist the local refiners to make their products safe for consumption”
