Nigeria: Abia Pipeline Explosion - 150 Dead - Security Operatives Collected N1,000 From Each Person to Scoop - Monarchs

15 October 2018

Umuahia — THE death toll from last Friday's Osisioma pipeline explosion in Abia is said to have risen to over 24, even as Eze Ikechukwu Chiavoghilefu, Chairman, Osisioma Local Government Traditional Rulers Council, put the figure at 150.

This is just as another monarch accused security operatives of causing the disaster, as they were collecting money from the villagers that came to scoop fuel, instead of preventing them from entering the site.

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