Oluku tanker explosion: Edo citizen urges Okpebholo to fulfil N2.5bn UBTH pledge

More than a twelvemonth aft Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo pledged ₦2.5 cardinal to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH, for the operation of a paediatric complex, a acrophobic national has urged him to fulfil the promise.

DAILY POST recalls that Okpebholo made the pledge connected August 26, 2025, pursuing an entreaty by the hospital’s Chief Medical Director, Professor Idia Ize-Iyamu, for the operation of a modern paediatric centre.

While approving the grant, the politician vowed that his medication would not play authorities with the wellness of children, describing the projected centre arsenic a bequest task for Edo State and Nigeria.

He besides promised that the authorities authorities would enactment with the absorption of UBTH to guarantee that the task met planetary standards.

However, much than a twelvemonth aft the pledge, operation of the centre is yet to begin, with nary groundbreaking ceremonial held.

Worried by the hold and past Thursday’s petroleum tanker detonation astatine Oluku Market on the Benin-Lagos Expressway, an Edo State resident, Mrs Grace Amayo, has urged the politician to fulfil his committedness by commencing con...