Lagos State govt. compensates Ikeja Cantonment bomb victims
Ikeja Cantonment bomb blast
On 27 January, 2002, hundreds of people fleeing from bomb blasts died at the Oke-Afa canal. Exactly 10 years when bombs exploded at the Ikeja Military Cantonment, Ikeja, Lagos State, the State Government has promised to compensate families of victims of the blasts.
It is not certain how much each of the families of the victims will get but the government said it is a token gesture to alleviate their plight.
Commissioner for Special Duties, Dr. Wale Ahmed at a news briefing said government would compensate some of the victims whose names have been compiled.
He said while some of the parents of the victims would be given monetary compensation, the children of the victims would be given scholarship.
He added that some of the divers who in rescued some of the victims mission during the blasts would be sent for training and would be given certificate to make them employable.
The commissioner said Governor Babatunde Fashola would personally hand over the monetary compensation to the families of the bomb blasts victims, adding that the occasion would be grand.
He stated that at least 600 people perished during the bomb blasts, saying that the 10th anniversary would be one that people would live to remember.
