Lagos To Compensate 70 Families Of Ikeja Bomb Blast Victims
Ten years after bombs exploded at the Ikeja Military Cantonment, Lagos State, the state government says it is going to compensate 70 families of victims of the blasts tomorrow.
It is not certain how much each of the families of the victims will get but the government said it is a token gesture to alleviate their plight.
On 27 January, 2002, hundreds of people fleeing from bomb blasts perished at the Oke-Afa canal.
The state government says it will mark the 10th anniversary of the bomb blasts in style by building a commemorative wall where the pictures of some of the victims would be engraved.
Commissioner for Special Duties, Wale Ahmed at a news conference said government would compensate some of the victims whose names have been compiled.
He said while some of the parents of the victims would be given monetary compensation, the children of the victims would be given scholarship.
The commissioner added that some of the divers who in rescued some of the victims mission during the blasts would be sent for training and would be given certificate to make them employable.
Ahmed stated that since the bomb blasts, the government had been rendering all forms of compensation to some of the victims’ families, saying that government would continue to support them.
The commissioner said Governor Babatunde Fashola would personally hand over the monetary compensation to the families of the bomb blasts victims, adding that the occasion would be grand.
He stated that at least 600 people perished during the bomb blasts, saying that the 10th anniversary would be one that people would live to remember.
“Whatever the government is doing is by way of showing help,” he said, adding that the reason why residents in the area prevented the commemoration of last year’s anniversary was that a bridge had not been constructed across the Oke-Afa canal.
He stated that the state government had already begun the construction of the link bridge between Ajao Estate and Ejigbo across the canal.
Ten years after bombs exploded at the Ikeja Military Cantonment, Lagos State, the state government says it is going to compensate 70 families of victims of the blasts tomorrow.
It is not certain how much each of the families of the victims will get but the government said it is a token gesture to alleviate their plight.
On 27 January, 2002, hundreds of people fleeing from bomb blasts perished at the Oke-Afa canal.
The state government says it will mark the 10th anniversary of the bomb blasts in style by building a commemorative wall where the pictures of some of the victims would be engraved.
Commissioner for Special Duties, Wale Ahmed at a news conference said government would compensate some of the victims whose names have been compiled.
He said while some of the parents of the victims would be given monetary compensation, the children of the victims would be given scholarship.
The commissioner added that some of the divers who in rescued some of the victims mission during the blasts would be sent for training and would be given certificate to make them employable.
Ahmed stated that since the bomb blasts, the government had been rendering all forms of compensation to some of the victims’ families, saying that government would continue to support them.
The commissioner said Governor Babatunde Fashola would personally hand over the monetary compensation to the families of the bomb blasts victims, adding that the occasion would be grand.
He stated that at least 600 people perished during the bomb blasts, saying that the 10th anniversary would be one that people would live to remember.
“Whatever the government is doing is by way of showing help,” he said, adding that the reason why residents in the area prevented the commemoration of last year’s anniversary was that a bridge had not been constructed across the Oke-Afa canal.
He stated that the state government had already begun the construction of the link bridge between Ajao Estate and Ejigbo across the canal.
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