Abia Govt blames old oil pipeline for explosion in Owaza community 

Abia State Government has said that a petroleum pipeline laid astir seventy years agone is liable for the detonation that occurred successful Umuololo Owaza, Ukwa West LGA of the State.

The  pipeline, which is portion of Oil Mining Lease (OML) 11,  exploded astatine astir 1:30 am Monday, causing a superior lipid spill that affected people’s homes, farms, schools, shops and livestock.

Inspecting the grade of damage, officials of the Abia State authorities expressed interest astir the biology impacts the  detonation had connected residents of Umuololo.

The State government’s delegation led by Commissioner for Environment, Philemon Asonye Ogbonna and Commissioner for Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Professor Joel Ogbonna,  lamented that respective buildings and  different spot were severely affected successful Umuololo, though nary beingness was lost.

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