A building opposite the popular GT Plaza where fast food is sold in Auchi, Edo State have been gutted by fire, leaving properties worth millions of naira destroyed, Fresh Angle can authoritatively report.
Our Auchi Correspondent who visited the scene of the inferno, reports that sympathizers were seen making frantic efforts to put off the fire which had already gutted the entire building. Some of the items consumed by the fire include computer sets, student files containing school receipt and original certificate as well as clothes, electronics, money, pieces of furniture and other valuables.
A student, Sunday Edosa who resides in a building close to the plaza attributed the cause of the inferno to electricity as “the incidence happened exactly when Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, restored power to the area” and they was a spark from PHCN cable. He explained “we were all sitting down here when PHCN brought electricity.You will quite agree with me that for the past few days now there have been no light in the whole community of Auchi. When they even bring the light you cannot use it to read. The next thing we heard was a spark on the pole here (Pointing to the pole). Before we know, this building was already on fire. We tried to save some of the properties from getting burnt.”
Also, a resident of the burnt building who managed to speak to Our Auchi Correspondent said the incident happened as a result of electricity, noting that some occupants of the building refused to unplug some of their electrical appliances when power went off few days earlier.“We have warned several times that they should always unplug their appliances anytime they are living their rooms but they will never listen. I lost so much in this inferno. Where will I start from? My personal documents are now in rubbles”, the victim lamented.
According to our sources, men of Power Holding Company of Nigerian, PHCN, were called on their mobile phones to switch off power, but their mobile numbers fail to go through.
When Fresh Angle visited the nearby branch office of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN in Sabo along Iyakpi road, the company’s spokesman was not on seat,but a staff in the office who spoke to Our Correspondent blamed occupants of the building for “their lackadaisical attitude”.
Sources from the community also revealed that some of the affected students were not around as they traveled for weekend.
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