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A warehouse within a complex housing 5 fully detached warehouses located beside Nigerian Breweries in the Iganmu area of Lagos State, was gutted by fire on Wednesday.

The fire incident also affected a diesel storage tank, a 33,000ltr tanker with no registration number, a mini tanker with registration number XV555-FKJ and a fiat bus with a registration number unknown at the scene.

Although, the cause of the fire outbreak is unknown at the time of filing this report.

Confirming the incident, the Permanent Secretary, of Lagos State Emergency Agency ( LASEMA), Dr. Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu, in a statement issued on Wednesday, explained that no life was lost and no injury was sustained by anyone.

Oke-Osanyintolu said “Upon arrival at the incident scene, a warehouse within a complex housing 5 fully detached warehouses was found to have been razed by fire.

“Also totally burnt out was a stand-alone diesel storage tank, a 33,000ltr tanker with no registration number, a mini tanker with registration number XV555-FKJ and a fiat bus with a registration number unknown.

He further said that no life was lost and no injuries were sustained to anyone due to the incident.

“The fire has been extinguished while dampening down is ongoing. However, the walls and pillars of the warehouse have been seriously affected by the intensity of the fire leading to various cracks and the imminent collapse of the structure, the Agency’s excavator will be required to pull down the warehouse structure in order to avert any crash on the responders and users of the environment.

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has argued in favor of installing Close Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras in the state’s major cities to reduce crime.

The state’s entire apparatus should be digitalized, according to Superintendent of Police and Police Public Relations Officer Odiko Macdon, for the state’s security to be further enhanced.

The Police spokesperson made this statement on Tuesday while hosting guests from the Correspondents’ chapel at his yearly gathering in Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom State.

It may be noted that the state’s governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel, had proposed placing CCTV cameras in the state but had not yet carried it out.

The PPRO urged the next governor, Pastor Umo Eno, to prioritize installing CCTV cameras as a means of combating insecurity in his administration.

He stated; “We are calling on the incoming administration, whom we believe has the capacity to do this, to digitalize and make policing in Akwa Ibom State technologically driven. 

“Let’s have CCTV everywhere in Uyo. It is doable, it is possible. Let’s have it in Ikot Ekpene, in Eket, in most towns in Akwa Ibom, if we cannot have it in all the villages and all the local governments.

“I’m an advocate of community policing, it will help to a great extent to curb crimes and criminality in our villages.” 

Also, he made automobile owners aware of the state’s escalating car theft rate and cautioned them to keep their vehicles as secure as possible.

He revealed that the command had lately found seven exotic cars that had been taken in various parts of the state.

The PPRO acknowledged that three-man syndicates were responsible for the theft but added that the command was making every effort to completely eradicate the obnoxious threat.

He said, “It pains the Commissioner of Police that now, one of the crimes we are battling with in Akwa Ibom State now is an increase in car theft. There is an increase in car theft and I am calling on Akwa Ibomites to always keep an eye on their vehicles as much as they can.”

“As a command, we recovered only recently about seven exotic cars, stolen from different parts of this state, traced to the receivers, recovered and given back to the people. 

“They are like three syndicates operating in this town. You park your vehicle and before you go in and come out, your vehicle has disappeared. That nonsense is about to end. “