The Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, said preliminary investigation revealed foreign names in the Corporate Affairs Commission documents of the mining firm that stored explosives that caused the Tuesday explosion in Ibadan, the state capital.
An explosion rocked parts of Ibadan on Tuesday leaving some persons dead, while many were reported injured with property worth millions of naira damaged.
Makinde, on Wednesday, said preliminary investigations revealed that illegal miners occupying one of the houses in the Bodija area of the state capital stored explosive devices that caused the blast.
The governor, while appearing on Channels TV Politics Today, Wednesday promised to uncover the identity of all those involved in the blast.
He explained that the explosion revealed the failure of the neighbourhood association, adding that they failed to report the activities of illegal miners in the area to law enforcement agencies.
