Yemisi Izuora/Ijeoma Agudosi
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said it is initiating full scale investigation on the vandalised Ije Ododo pipeline in Lagos state.
Some suspected oil thieves had close to mid night on monday cut off a part of the petroleum pipelin prompting the NNPC to shut down the facility.
Oriental News Njigeria gathered that the incident occurred at the Ije Ododo pipeline at about 11.15pm monday night.
The group manager public affairs of the corporation Ohi Alegbe said that NNPC would institute an investigation on the incident.
Ije Ododo line is directly from Atlas Cove which supplies products to Mosimi.
Atlas Cove is a critical supply facility to Mosimi which supports strategic supply chain that distributes products to other parts of south west zone.
Officials have described Ije Ododo and Arepo as volatile and fraught to criminal attack and extremely dangerous to suspected vandals in recent times.
Ibrahim Farinloye, south west spokesperson of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said NNPC had shot down flows and locked the valves to stop further supply to feeding the fire.
Farinloye said fire service and other emergency services have arrive the scene to put up the fire which is raging at the time of this report.
He said the emergency service officials and fire fighter were able to secure access to the scene.
He also said the terrain is difficult to access due to swampy nature of the area.