A fire outbreak has occurred at the private residence of Nigeria’s Minister of State of the FCT, Dr Mariya Mahmoud at the Asokoro area of Abuja.
Confirming the incident, the Acting Director of the FCT Fire Service, Amiola Adebayo said the blaze completely destroyed the first floor of the building.
Adebayo added that the fire started at about 9:45 am on Sunday. The Fire Service was said to have arrived at the scene some minutes after they were alerted by first responders who tried to put out the fire.
“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.
The Service is yet to determine the cause of the fire.
