A fire outbreak has on Friday gutted a section of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) complex in Abuja.
The director of publicity and voter education of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, confirmed the incident.
He said the fire only affected the office of the director of the election and party monitoring in the building, adding that;
Yes, there was a fire incident. Fortunately, we have a fire unit in the office. It was put out. Some equipment and correspondence were affected. But no sensitive material was affected.
Vanguard gathered that the fire started minutes before noon and personnel of the Federal Fire Service had already mobilized to the scene in an effort to put out the inferno.
As at press time, more details of the incident are unknown.
It would be recalled that there have been cases of fire outbreaks at government offices lately.
A part of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) headquarters in Abuja was gutted by fire on Wednesday, April 15.
A section of the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF) in Abuja was also razed by fire some days ago.
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari expressed sadness over the fire incident that killed at least 14 people at an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Borno state.
It was reported that the incident, which occurred on the evening of Thursday, April 16, in Ngala local government area of the state, also left many others injured.
The circumstances that led to the inferno have yet to be ascertained.
See photos from fire outbreak at INEC office below:
