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Some victims of the Ikeja military cantonment explosion, which claimed about 1,000 lives in 2002, have called on the government at all levels to compensate them as promised.
The victims under the aegis of Families of the Victims of the 2002 Ikeja Bomb Blast said 10 years after the incident, government had yet to cushion the impact of the blast on their lives as promised.
Coordinator of the victims, Mr. Majekodunmi Olaniran, who addressed journalists in Lagos, said, “Government has refused to recognise our plight as the people directly affected by the incident. The government promised us all sorts of things but today, none of them have been fulfilled.
“The Federal Government promised to pay compensation to the families of the victims but we don’t know what has happened to that promise.”
Majekodunmi said the government also promised to construct the Oke-Afa Canal and take care of the orphans whose parents died as a result of the incident.
He said, “We see the children of the victims on the streets, some of them don’t go to school. That was not their parents’ plans for them.
“We demand justice for the blood of our people that was spilled at Oke-Afa. We want to remind those at the helm of affairs of their promises.”
Some victims of the Ikeja military cantonment explosion, which claimed about 1,000 lives in 2002, have called on the government at all levels to compensate them as promised.
The victims under the aegis of Families of the Victims of the 2002 Ikeja Bomb Blast said 10 years after the incident, government had yet to cushion the impact of the blast on their lives as promised.
Coordinator of the victims, Mr. Majekodunmi Olaniran, who addressed journalists in Lagos, said, “Government has refused to recognise our plight as the people directly affected by the incident. The government promised us all sorts of things but today, none of them have been fulfilled.
“The Federal Government promised to pay compensation to the families of the victims but we don’t know what has happened to that promise.”
Majekodunmi said the government also promised to construct the Oke-Afa Canal and take care of the orphans whose parents died as a result of the incident.
He said, “We see the children of the victims on the streets, some of them don’t go to school. That was not their parents’ plans for them.
“We demand justice for the blood of our people that was spilled at Oke-Afa. We want to remind those at the helm of affairs of their promises.”
He said many letters had been addressed to the office of the Secretary to the Federal Government on the subject, but none had been acknowledged.
Majekodunmi urged the government to consider the children of the victims.
Asked if the state government did not give them cash as relief on the 10th anniversary of the blast, he said many of the survivors had yet to receive the donation.
The Lagos State Government had during the 10th anniversary given some of the victims N250,000 each.
Culled from Punch Metro.
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