The Humanity Centre along Ijaiye-Ojokoro along the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, was on Wednesday gutted by fire. The Humanity Centre houses many civil society organisations including the Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL. CACOL, which confirmed that no life was lost in the incident, berated the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) over its poor response to the emergency.
The Humanity Centre houses many civil society organisations including the Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL.
The Humanity Centre along Ijaiye-Ojokoro along the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, was on Wednesday gutted by fire.The Humanity Centre houses many civil society organisations including the Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL.CACOL, which confirmed that no life was lost in the incident, berated the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency over its poor response to the emergency.
It, however, disclosed that the fire affected the anteroom into the Director of Administration’s office and suspected that it was likely caused by an electrical surge.The statement reads; “The Humanity Centre that houses headquarters of many civil society organisations, including the Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, gutted by fire earlier today after the office closed for the day’s commitments and locked the building yesterday.
"I personally called the emergency number around 4:29 am and I was expecting to be attended to as someone who urgently need help but unfortunately despite the claim that they now have improved response time to emergencies, they were asking if I was at the scene of the incident, I told them the place is our office and we don’t sleep at the office. They further asked what is the magnitude of the fire and how sure was I that the fire was really burning the building.
“Though we are grateful that no life was lost in the incident and we appreciate all those living in the neighbourhood who tried their best to put out the fire, we would like to use this medium to call on the Lagos State Government to go beyond the provision of safety and rescue infrastructures and equipment but also invest heavily in the area of training and retraining of the personnel of the emergency contact centre, who are the first line of contact so as to make them more efficient and...
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