The Kano Police headquarters situated at Bompai, Nasarawa Local Government, is reported to be on fire, with many offices and files suspected to be burnt to ashes.
The State Fire Service is said to have since deployed to the scene to contain the raging fire on the one-storey building of the command.
They also decried the non nonchalant attitude of the men and officers of the Fire Service who did not arrive on time to save the situation.
The inferno razed sensitive officers at the building occupying the office of the Commissioner of Police, but the police boss’office was not touched, though the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Admin), the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) office, Finance Office, among other top officers’office were touched by the fire.
No life was reported lost as at the time of filling this report, but our Reporter gathered that sensitize files were burnt during the inferno.
The police authorities at the Command are yet to release official statement of the actual cause of the inferno.
But unconfirmed reports have it that the entire upstairs was caught up with fire except the office of the State Police Commissioner, Mamman Dauda, which is highly fortified.
According to witnesses, the fire started at about 2pm, and affected structures from the Provost Office down to the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Police.
Although the Command spokesman, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa phone was switched off at the time of this report, but sources said the cause of the inferno could not be immediately verified.
The cause of the inferno was still sketchy as of the time of this report.
