On Wednesday night, a section of Jos’ well-known NTA Park car park was completely destroyed by fire.
According to reports, the fire, which was reported to have begun about 7:30 p.m., burned for a number of hours before being extinguished by firefighters.
Although no lives were lost in the fire event, Maikwudi Ibrahim, the chairman of the Motor Park, told ANAEDOONLINE.NG in Jos on Thursday that the outbreak burned multiple premises, including stores.
We arrived there around 7 o’clock, said Ibrahim. Our financial secretary’s office was the origin of the fire, which quickly spread to nearby stores.
“The fire was much because it started where tires and forgotten items of passengers were kept and everything was burnt down. The drivers who always sleep in the park were still around, they were able to quickly remove their vehicles and that saved vehicles from being burnt. But the fire spread to shops and razed them.
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The chairman blamed the fire incident on a power surge in the affected office where the inferno was ignited.
He said, “The fire was caused by a power surge from the Jos Electricity Company because, while we were still at the park, they restored light and took it again almost immediately. This happened more than ten times. It was when they brought the light for the eleventh time that we saw a spark from the Financial Secretary’s office and before we knew what was happening, the fire was everywhere.”
Our correspondent who visited the NTA park, on Thursday morning, observed that the fire had been put off while traders whose shops were destroyed by the fire were seen lamenting the situation.
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