The Kano State police command headquarters in Bompai, Nasarawa local government was on Saturday, gutted by fire.
Most offices and documents in the one-storey building were reported to have been destroyed by the inferno but the office of the state Police Commissioner, Mamman Dauda, was spared.
The state fire service officials were said to have been deployed to the scene to contain the raging fire on the one-storey building of the command
“Today, Saturday 14, January 2023 at 11:00 am, we woke up to this bad incidence of fire outbreak at the Police Headquarters in Bompai on the first floor,” the spokesman of the Kano State Police Command DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa said.
“No life was lost. Our records are also intact and those we have locked are also intact because the fire did not affect the area they are kept. We are suspecting that the incident happened due to some electrical problems but we have already commenced an investigation.
“You can see the top part of the building has been burnt. It is only the Commissioner’s office that has not been affected as well as those on the ground floor.”
