The governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, has said that some foreign names were listed as proprietors in a Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) document that belonged to a mining business that caused Tuesday’s explosion in Ibadan.
The governor made this claim on Channels Television’s Politics Today program on Wednesday.
In addition, Governor Makinde disclosed that one more victim passed away in a hospital on Wednesday, bringing the total number of fatalities from the tragic explosion to three.
“We recovered one individual alive today (Wednesday) under the rubble. 60 of the 77 people hospitalised have been discharged,” the governor said.
“We are trying to uncover the identities of the people. We’ve done a few fact-finding on the company involved and yes, there are indeed some foreign names on the CAC documents of the company involved but these are still early days. We don’t have anything to cover,” he said.
The governor clarified that the incident had nothing to do with terrorist attack, insisting that those operating illegal mining were responsible for the unfortunate incident.
“It is not anything that has to do with banditry and insurgency but illegal miners that stored explosives in a residential area,” the governor clarified.
