A fire recentlyrazed a36-room apartment located on Muritala Way, Ilorin, leaving many people homeless and property worth millions of naira destroyed.Community News gathered that almost all the tenants were not at home and their rooms containing series of electrical appliances locked when the fire outbreak started.Even, some that were said to be nearby when the fire started could not enter their rooms to take even a pin out because the thick and hot smoke emanating from the house was unbearable.The occupiers of adjourning houses were thrown into palpable fears as the whole community was enveloped in choking smoke and the people became helpless until men of the fire brigade came to put out the fire. However, by the time the fire brigade officers were able to put out the fire, the house had been completely razed, except for a shop and few rooms at the ground floor of the building.One of the victims of fire disaster is the Secretary of Alliance for Democracy (AD) in Kwara State, Mr. Michael Sunday Ologunde, who was occupying two rooms in the upper floor of the face-me-I-face-you building.Ologunde, who told Community News that he lost property worth N2 million and appealed to well spirited Nigerians and governments to come to his aid.He said the assitance would help him recoup half of what he lost since he could not get back everything lost inside the rooms like certificates, books, archival materials like newspapers and magazines among other valuable property.The AD secretary who said he had lived in the house for three years, added that he now takes refuge in his church, St. Barnabas Cathedral, located few metres from where he lived. He said he got the accommodation assistance through Papa Adeleke aka Labuya, who he said contacted the church and he was put in a room in vicar's lodge.He also said that he had no premonition of the disaster in the least instance, adding that he was even with his pastor at Oro Road, off Taiwo area in Ilorin where he had gone for special prayer. He said a relation called his GSM line telling him that his apartment was on fire. Ologunde who chartered a commercial motorbike to take him home, was confronted with an unfortunate scene as fire had gutted the whole place,"including all what I've worked for all my life; certificates from primary school leaving certificates to degree level and all other long and short trainings I did in Animal Production, artificial insemination, among others.The Kwara AD secretary, who was full of thanks to God for sparing his life and those of others, said it could have been a different scenario if the fire had occurred in the dead of the night.He also said that one of his children who recently gained admission to study Anatomy at the University of Ilorin could have faced problem in his admission if he had not concluded his admission processes before the fire incident.
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