The Lagos State Government and Lagos Metropolitan Authority (LAMATA) has assured Lagosians that the Blue Rail Line infrastructure is safe after a fire incident occurred involving an oil tanker transloading diesel into a barge on the lagoon on the outer Marina under one of the piers for the Lagos Rail Mass Transit (LRMT) Blue Line at Marina.
Kolawole Ojelabi, Corporate Communication for LAMATA disclosed this in a statement released and made available to Newsclickng on Tuesday.
The fire was said to have been ignited by a petrol-powered generator deployed to pump diesel into the barge from a tanker parked by pier 27.
The fire has since been put off by a combined team of firemen from the Lagos State Fire Service, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Fire Service, and the Federal Fire Service.
The Police were also present to incident the fire outbreak and the Police are currently working to ascertain the ownership of the fuel tanker and the barge.
Preliminary test carried out by the contractor, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), shows that the pier was not affected by the fire.
LAMATA will indeed continue with the testing phase of the operation of the trains and civil infrastructure, with a view to educating members of the public on how to interact with the rail system.
