The personal residence of the FCT Minister of International Affairs, Dr. Mariya Mahmoud, situated in Asokoro, was destroyed by fireplace on Sunday, PUNCH studies.
The Performing Director of the FCT Fireplace Service, Amiola Adebayo, confirmed the incident to our correspondent.
Adebayo said that the primary flooring of the constructing was utterly razed by the fireplace.
He defined that the fireplace began round 9:45 a.m., however company officers arrived on the scene minutes after receiving a standing name after emergency responders tried to achieve the federal fireplace division.
A pending name implies that the responders had insisted on going to the workplace to get the firefighters' consideration, slightly than calling the fireplace division's emergency line.
“The fireplace was found a couple of minutes earlier than ten, maybe round 9:45 am. Round 13 minutes previous ten we obtained a working name, so we adopted whoever got here calling us to the fireplace scene.
“They have been all on the bottom flooring. They didn’t uncover the fireplace in time and didn’t name the fireplace brigade. It was a working name that got here to us. Our findings present that they referred to as the Federal Fireplace Division, however didn’t reply in time. Then got here the continued name to our workplace.
“After we obtained there, we noticed that the primary flooring, the highest flooring, was utterly on fireplace. So what we are able to do is stop the fireplace from spreading to the bottom flooring and adjoining buildings. No lives misplaced,” he stated.
On the time of submitting this report, the reason for the fireplace was but to be decided, though the Minister's Media Assistant, Austin Elemue, additionally confirmed the incident.
