Fire, on Friday night, gutted the School of
Engineering Office Complex of the Federal
Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti.
The ravaging fire which started at about 11
pm completely burnt the complex housing the
office of the Dean of the School of Engineering
and other adjourning offices, including those of
the Heads of Department of Mechanical, Civil,
Electrical/ Electronics and Agricultural
Engineering, as well as a large classroom.
It took the combined efforts of the men of the
Ekiti State Fire Service, the Polytechnic Fire
Service team, security officials and students who
took risks to prevent the fire from spreading to
other facilities in the School.
In a statement on Saturday by the Deputy
Registrar (Information), Mr. Ade Adeyemi-
Adejolu, the Rector of the Institution, Dr. Taiwo
Akande, who also participated in the rescue
efforts along with members of the Governing
Council, as well as some top officials of the
Polytechnic, described it as a disaster of
monumental proportions.
She lamented that so many sensitive and un-
replaceable documents and materials ranging
from computers, furniture, office cabinets and
the building complex were lost in the inferno.
According to her, an emergency meeting of the
Governing Council was still on around 11:05
pm when some students raised alarm about the
fire.
He said efforts to prevent the fire from
spreading to other facilities proved abortive.
While stating that the cause of the fire had yet
to be ascertained because there was neither
electricity supply nor any bush burning at the
time of the incident, she added that investigation
would be launched to unravel the cause.
The Rector appealed to the Ekiti State
Government, the National Emergency
Management Agency, the Tertiary Education
Trust Fund, and other arms of the Federal
Government to come to the aid of the
Polytechnic in mitigating the monumental loses.
- Punch
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