Kogi probes Assembly fire, provides alternative place

The Kogi State Government has initiated a probe into the fire incident which gutted the state House of Assembly yesterday.

In a statement, the commissioner for Information, Kingsley Fanwo, said the “state government wished to inform the people of Kogi and other Nigerians that the House of Assembly had been razed down by fire.”

He said the sad incident occurred in the early hours of yesterday.

He added, “Security and technical experts have started working hard to unravel the cause(s) of the inferno which caused significant damage to the complex.”

Fanwo said the state government would inform the general public of findings as they unfold.

The commissioner said the state government would “make temporary arrangements to ensure that legislative business was not halted as a result of the unfortunate incident.”