Tafa fire: Trailers mustn’t pack on highway — El-Rufai

Governor Nasir Ahmad ElRufai has expressed sadness over the death of six people following a fire outbreak from a petrol tanker at Tafa, Kagarko Local Government Area of the state.

The governor insisted that tankers must stop parking on the highway as soon as the trailer parks under construction in Maraban Jos and Tafa were completed.

He said, “It is unfortunate and painful but we will redouble our commitment to end this menace. We have been doing our best insisting that trailers must leave the highway because parking on the road is risk to our citizens.

“I am assuring you that they will soon leave once we are done with the construction of the garage. We are equally doing the same thing in Maraban Jos along Kaduna-Zaria highway.”

The incident which occurred on Saturday also left 14 people with various degrees of injuries. One house and several shops were burnt when a trailer conveying petroleum products caught fire.

El-Rufai, who arrived the scene of the incident around 6:30pm in company of Nuhu Goro Shadalafiya, member representing Kagarko Constituency in the Kaduna State House of Assembly and other government officials, condoled the community and assured them of government commitment to complete the Tafa trailer park.

“We also need cooperation and support of Tafa and Maraban Jos communities; they must understand that we are not against them but only discharging our responsibility to shield them from danger,” he said.

The governor who also visited the site of the trailer park being constructed in Tafa, charged the contractor to speed up work and complete the project.