Our operations will not be affected by the Enugu fire tragedy – EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has assured Nigerians that the fire that occurred at the commission’s Enugu Zonal Command on Friday, May 5, will not have an impact on its activities.

Dr. George Ekpungu, the commission’s secretary, provided this guarantee on Sunday while visiting the Command for an inspection.

Speaking to journalists after giving them a tour of the facilities damaged by the fire, Ekpungu expressed his relief that neither the fire disaster nor the loss of life it caused did not impede the commission’s ability to carry out its important tasks.

According to reports, the fire event was caused by a surge in the public power source.

The commission’s secretary did point out that the EFCC would not make any definitive statements regarding the inferno’s cause until the ongoing inquiry is over.

He said, “We cannot at this point in time know the exact cause of the fire but the preliminary investigation reveals it was a spark. We are grateful to God that no life was lost and our critical components of operations were saved. For now, we don’t know the cause of the inferno but the investigation will tell us the cause of the fire and that will be done by professionals. We thank God that in the records, our armoury, suspects, detainees and every other thing critical to our work are safe.

“And you know EFCC is ICT sophisticated. Whatever we have here, we have it at head office. So, we have a way of recovering a lot of things. So, since the coming of our chairman, we have been digitalising our processes. What happened here will not affect our operations.”