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JEPTFON calls for relocation of residents near tank farms in Lagos

By on March 23, 2013

The Jetty and Petroleum Tank Farm Owners of Nigeria, JEPTFON, has called for the relocation of all residents near tank farms in the commercial city of Lagos.

JEPTFON Executive Secretary, Mr. Enoch Karnawa, made the call in Lagos, against the backdrop of an explosion at a tank farm around Tin Can Island on January 8.

According to him, “The tank farms have other roles to play apart from supplying products. They generate employment and also pay taxes to the state government,” he said.

Karnawa further stated that it was easier to relocate the residents around the tank farms than to relocate the tank farms.

“The government should relocate the residential houses and not the tank farms because the tank farms are capital intensive. It is easier to relocate the residential houses because the investments in them are not as much as that of the tank farms. In actual fact, the tank farms are always located by the seaside, apart from the ones at Apapa, to ensure access to ships bringing in petroleum products,” Karnawa said.

It would be recalled that an explosion occurred at a tank farm around Tin-Can Island Port, on January 8 when a barge carrying petrol was trying to discharge its cargo at the MRS Jetty.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State had said that the state government would collaborate with the Federal Government to relocate the jetties.

Karnawa, however, said that relocation of the jetties would be a Herculean task and that the tank farms had economic advantages.