On Tuesday morning, there was a fire outbreak at the Headquarters of the Enugu State Broadcasting Service.
According to reports, the fire started shortly after the station opened around 5.30am.
The General Manager of the station, Chukwuma Ogbonna revealed that the incident was the second fire incident at the station this year.
While stating that the current incident could be attributed to a power surge, Ogbonna noted that the first incident had remained a puzzle.
He said;
“I really thank God that the Fire Service came on time and saved the station otherwise I don’t know what could have happened. The firefighters have put out the fire. It didn’t destroy many things, at least we can go on air.”
On the previous fire incident, Ogbonna said “that one happened in our store and all the equipment were totally destroyed. Till today the cause of that fire has remained a puzzle because there was no electricity supply to that store.
“After the incident, police interviewed all the staff and their report hasn’t been released. So it has remained a puzzle. But this one that happened today can be attributed to a power surge. I think there was a problem at the control panel that led to the fire incident this morning.”
Meanwhile, there was also a fire outbreak at the Ogige Main Market, Nsukka town in the state.
The fire incident, which occurred around in the noon, razed 20 shops. It led to the destruction of goods and property worth millions of naira in the Phone Villa section of the market.
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