FUEL TANKER EXPLOSION-TWO FEET AWAY FROM MY CAR
(MY MIRACLE STORY)

THIS IS A FIRST WITNESS ACCOUNT STORY!

I’ve learnt one thing in life, which is to let my instinct guide me, over time I have found out it has always worked for me.

I got a call from my good friend, Otery that we hang out, since I had finished with my appointments earlier than scheduled, I felt it was a good option. We were headed for surulere but decided to go through new garage, Bariga to beat the massive traffic from Ilaje (bariga) to yaba through Ojuelgba.

Just in front of Mr. Biggs at Gbagada, we encountered a ditch and thought we should reverse, meanwhile, directly opposite us, at the other lane, a speeding fuel tanker fully loaded, the driver did not probably noticed the big hole right in the middle of the road; he went right into the hole, with the tanker tumbling over, falling on its side, immediately, like on impulse, I told my friend to reverse and it was just at the point of reversing that this bog explosion occurred, two feet or less from where we were caught in the ditch few seconds back. The tanker opened, releasing the entire content onto the street, it caught fire immediately,

I asked my self in that split second, what of if we didn’t reverse, we would have been caught up in that inferno, surely and then what will be the story???

Immediately, I called my first female friend and precious boo, CHICHI (JUKE BOX, MBI-yeah this is probably not the right time or right place to reveal the identity of the woman in my life. but hey…its my blog...so…ok, now that was just to cal my nerves in this write up, as am yet to get over the whole shock) requesting for a media coverage of the explosive pandemonium.

The Nigerian fire fighters, arrived after 40 minutes of continues chaos and pandemonium, believe you me, after 15 minutes of trying what they would promptly say is their ‘best’, they run out of water and had to wait for another 20 minutes for the tanker to explode more and burn more, the second tanker came after but still they could not put out the fire,

yeah am sure you would probably be wondering, what about the driver…God bless his soul, he was very smart enough, immediately the tanker was turning over, he automatically detached the head of the tanker car and speed off before the other half containing the fuel exploded.

Well, you know Lagos, or should I say Nigeria, nothing goes about/on without political advantage, the Gov’nor of the state arrived on the scene about 5:40pm, well I was on my way out of the scene when he arrived so I cant say what he said but then, indeed for the first time, I came to well understand the true meaning of “HIGHLY INFLAMMABLE”

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