Just In - Fire Razes INEC Headquarters, Destroys Political Files

The Headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja was on Friday wrecked by fire. 

The burnt section, the Election and Party Monitoring Department (EPM) were totally brought down by the inferno that began at around 11 am. 

Nonetheless, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman Voters' Education and Information, Festus Okoye, said that no basic archive was lost in the fire-related accident aside from PCs and photocopying machines. 

He unveiled that a few archives relating to political parties were burnt the important ones were put away in flame-resistant cupboards.

According to him: 

“The fire started around 11 am, it absolutely was at the Media Centre outside the INEC Headquarters, the Headquarters is undamaged, there's no cause for alarm. the most documents concerning our monitoring of political parties are still intact, they need been removed before the hearth . 

"What you've got here are just correspondences. But we've lost public properties and our working equipment We are still trying to seek out out what happened.”

Controller Braimoh Mommoh, accountable for Federal Fire Service, Abuja Command, said he was called that there was a fire at the INEC Headquarters. 

He said that the degree of harm was negligible because of the endeavors of the firefighters "otherwise the entire house would have been flattened down". 

Mammoth said the investigation is on to unwind the reason for the fire, including that basic investigation will be finished. 

MackenzieSkyBlog recalls that the Treasury House in the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation and the Headquarters of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) were burnt down as of late out of negligence.