The Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has stated that the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) paperwork relating to the mining business involved in Tuesday’s explosion in Ibadan listed certain foreign names as proprietors.
The governor made this statement during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday.
Governor Makinde also disclosed that the death toll from the terrible incident had increased to three, with one more victim dying in a hospital on Wednesday.
He said:
“We recovered one individual alive today (Wednesday) under the rubble. 60 of the 77 people hospitalised have been discharged.
“We are trying to uncover the identities of the people. We’ve done a few fact-finding on the company involved and yes, there are indeed some foreign names on the CAC documents of the company involved but these are still early days. We don’t have anything to cover.
“It is not anything that has to do with banditry and insurgency but illegal miners that stored explosives in a residential area.”
cc: Daily Post Ng
