JUST IN: FCT Minister’s Residence Razed By The Fire

Fire completely destroyed FCT Minister of state, Dr. Mariya Mahmoud’s private apartment in Asokoro, the Federal Capital Territory, on Sunday.

The incidence was confirmed in a statement by Amiola Adebayo, the FCT Fire Service’s Acting Director.

The fire, according to Adebayo, completely destroyed the building’s first story.

While responding to calls from emergency personnel attempting to contact the Federal Fire Service, he said that the fire had begun at approximately 9:45 am and that Service members had only arrived on the scene a few minutes earlier.

“The fire was discovered a few minutes to ten, maybe around 9:45 am. We received a running call around thirteen minutes after ten, so we followed the person who came to call us to the fire scene.

“All of them were on the ground floor. They did not discover the fire on time, and they didn’t call the Fire Service. It was a running call that came to us. From our findings, they say they called the Federal Fire Service, but they didn’t respond on time, that’s when the running call came to our office.

“On reaching there, we saw that the first floor, the upper floor was completely engulfed in fire. So what we could do is just to prevent the fire from spreading to the ground floor, and the adjacent structures. No lives lost”, he said. [CONTINUE READING HERE]