Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, says 90 percent of victims of last Tuesday’s
explosion in Ibadan have been discharged from various hospitals.

Speaking yesterday when he gave the update, the governor comended the security agencies who have been maintaining law and order in and around Bodija, as well as the Nigeria Society of Engineers who have been carrying out structural integrity tests on about 230 properties around the site, and noted that the clinical psychologist has commenced counselling for victims of the incident at the Emergency Operations Centre in Ibadan.

Confirming that the death toll from the incident currently stands at five persons, the governor also said search and rescue have ended at the Dejo Oyelese close site of the explosion, and recovery efforts have begun.

Meanwhile, the federal government, through the Ministry of Solid Minerals Development, has restated its resolve to get to the root of the explosion that rocked Ibadan last week.

The minister of solid minerals development, Dele Alake, in a statement on Sunday, said the Federal Government is now waiting for the outcome of forensic investigation that will determine the real cause of the blast, the explosives type that triggered it, and the circumstances leading to the incident.

Alake noted that his ministry also deployed Mine Inspectorate Officers to the scene to join other security agencies to unravel the cause of the explosion.