Senator Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has summoned Petroleum Products Tanker Drivers' Union and partners to a crisis meeting on Monday, June 8.
The meeting, Ambode said, would address the unending petrol tanker-affected flames in the state.
The senator gave the mandate on Saturday amid a visit to the scene of the early morning petrol tanker flame at Idimu range of the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that a comparative tanker flame happened on Tuesday at Iyana-Ipaja range of the state which left a few shops and vehicles obliterated.
The Idimu fire which happened in the small hours of Saturday at a crossing point has likewise left property worth a large number of naira in vestiges.
Around 34 structures, 70 shops, one tricycle and one truck were devoured by the flame lighted by a fallen petrol-loaded tanker, as per the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency.
"I have coordinated that we will meet with the union of the tanker drivers and different organizations on Monday morning, and we must make affirmations identifying with the utilization of our streets.
"This is another shocking mischance inside of one week; awful in light of the fact that we are starting to lose a considerable measure of our benefits and property," Ambode said.
Ambode likewise said it had get to be important to check the exercises of the tanker drivers and implement the state activity laws.
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