The National Chairman, New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Dr. Boniface Aniebonam has called on the intelligence agencies operating in the country to probe further into the incessant accidents involving petroleum tankers as recently recorded in some parts of the country saying that there could be more to it than meet the eyes.
Speaking in Lagos, Aniebonam who was worried on account of the number of lives and properties being lost as result of this current trend said that the security agencies needed to watch again and carry out some level of profiling so as to ascertain whether or not those accidents had terrorism undertone.
“There is something I am beginning to see now; these are some of the reasons why some good heads should start thinking. These incidences of tankers laddened with petroleum products hitting certain places in the name of accidents and careless driving, I think the intelligence forces should look further because terrorism can come from any angle.
“Look at the Onitsha incidence, so, why must it be there that trailer is failing and some other place? Remember the one that happened in Apapa here, you will recall it was around a tanker that was carrying oil. So, they can come from any angle. You see the various attacks in Maiduguri immediately after the swearing in ceremony.
“So the intelligence groups need to watch again and do some level of profiling but I am surprised that even when we have changed the licensing regulations as far as driving is concerned, I thought we should have imbibed the culture of professionalism, you know to get drivers properly tested and know the competence of these drivers before licenses are given to them. But it is like we have gone back to the old stock where even a dead man is given a license”.
On the criticisms that greeted President Buhari’s visit to Niger Republic and Chad in a bid to tackle the Boko Haram menace, he maintained that aligning forces with the neighbouring countries in order to do away with the Boko Haram insurgency was one of the priorities of the present administration adding that the President was moving on with his campaign promise right from the onset.
According to him,” So, what is wrong with? Is there any country that is self sufficient? You still need other countries one way or the other. So, nobody is an island and the President has not told you he can do everything all by himself, he cannot if Nigerians do not support him, he cannot.
“As am talking to you, is the President here with us? He needs the cooperation of everybody and this is the point am making. So, going to Niger to fashion out further actiob as to terminate or eliminate the existence of the Boko Haram is quite in order”.
It will be recalled that a tanker laddened with Petroleum products recently lost control and crashed into the Asaba bound bus park at Onitsha in Anambra State killing about 69 persons and injuring many as well as similar incidents in Lagos prompting the Anambra and Lagos State governments to take drastic measures towards arresting the trends.
