Fire Guts Kogi Assembly Complex

The Kogi State House of Assembly complex has been gutted by fire.

The cause of the fire incident was unknown at the time of filing this report on Monday morning.

Metrobusinessnews.com gathered that the assembly gallery was completely burnt.

The fire incident started at about 8 am on Monday.

The Speaker of the House, Prince Mathew Kolawole, while speaking to journalists at the assembly complex said the house will allow security agencies to investigate the incident.

He, however, said this would not stop the assembly from performing its duty as the resolution of the house concerning Dangote Cement Plc stands.
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Some members of the Assembly had last week raised the alarm over the porous nature of the complex, warning that efforts must be made to secure the environment.

Similarly, an official of the state government had told the platform that the heightened security situation stems from the fact that the committee probing the internal revenue of the state had been meeting and had been receiving a lot of persons who were coming to submit either memoranda or documents, thereby exposing the security lapses of the place.

MBN further gathered that intelligence report at the weekend indicated more surveillance and vigilance, particularly at the state capital as well as other neogbouring towns, a situation that led to fortification of security around some principal officers of the House that went outside the capital at the weekend.

Of particular, was one of the principal officers who had to be escorted through Obajana with some detachment of policemen to the state capital over the weekend.