- A building on the South Campus of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, was on Wednesday razed by fire.
A building on the South Campus of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, was on Wednesday razed by fire.
The Public Relations Officer of the institution, Sola Lawal, said in an interview on Thursday that the building was a female hostel that was still under construction.
He said no live was lost, but properties were destroyed by the inferno.
Lawal commended the men of the Osun State Fire Service and their federal counterparts for responding quickly to the distress call, adding that their action prevented the inferno from spreading.
The Administrative Officer, Osun State Fire Service, Fatai Aremu, said firemen from the Oke Fia unit received a distress call from the school late on Wednesday and firemen were immediately mobilised to the scene.
Aremu said the incident was likely as a result of bush burning in the Jere area, where the campus is located.
The service estimated the properties lost to the inferno at over N10m.
Aremu stated, “Some people must have set the nearby bush on fire. And the fire spread onto the premises of the polytechnic. It affected an uncompleted one storey building.
“The upper floor was severely damaged. The Ede Fire Station’s personnel were the first to arrive at the scene. They later sent for backup from Osogbo. So, men from the Oke Fia Fire Station and the Federal Fire Service assisted to subdue the fire. The estimated worth of property lost to the incident was put at over N10m.”
