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No Any Fire Outbreak in CBN – Okorafor

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By Time Nigeria

 

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has denied the report that its head office in Abuja was on fire. The Acting Director, Corporate Communication of CBN, Isaac Okorafor in a statement made available to journalists said the CBN maintain a total security system that triggers safety alarms in the presence of smoke and so all fire engines and personnel received the alert only to discover that it was an unusual pall of exhaust. ”Passers-by who saw a pall of exhaust from the generator house far away from the building mistook it for fire.

 

He stated that affected generator has been rested and normal work has been uninterrupted while the engineers are working to rectify the issues with the generator.

 

It would be recalled that there was pandemonium at the headquarters of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Abuja following a purported fire outbreak at the premises of the apex bank. The fire was said to have started about a few minutes past 6:00p.m. and lasted for about 30 minutes before it was put out.

 

It was however gathered that men from the Federal Capital Fire Service were at the scene to ensure that the fire did not get out of control. Apart from the Federal Fire Service that deployed two firefighting trucks to the scene of the incident, a truck belonging to Julius Berger was also sited at the apex bank headquarters.

   

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