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Fire razes Osogbo PHCN control centre


Parts of Osogbo, the Osun State capital and its environ may not have power supply for days to come because of the inferno which razed a section of the National Control Centre of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), Osogbo on Thursday night.



The centre serves Osun, Oyo, Kwara and Ekiti states in the provision of electricity supply.

A source within the National Control Centre said there was a fire outbreak around 10.00 pm which caused serious confusion in the town as residents of Power Line area where the centre is located, ran helter skelter.

The men of Fire Service could not put out the fire until 9.00am of the following day.

The source further disclosed that the inferno was caused by a technical hitch in the centre.
Equipment worth hundreds of millions of naira was destroyed in the inferno.

It was gathered that some residents of the area, who were scared, moved to other parts of the town in the midnight when all efforts to put the fire out could not yield positive results.

Some of the residents said they fled the area for safety and that of their family members as they had earlier thought that it was a bomb blast.

The state Deputy Governor, Mrs Grace Tomori, who visited the scene of the incident at 3.30 am allayed the fear of the people of the state.
She assured them that the incident was not caused by members of the Boko Haram sect, saying that the state government would investigate the cause of the ugly incident.

Men of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corp and the Nigerian Army joined the officers of the State Fire Service to put out the fire.
Security agents, including the police and soldiers were strategically stationed at the centre to provide adequate security for facilities at the centre.

However, the incident has caused total black out in most parts of the state. It was learnt that the situation might persist until necessary repairs are made at the centre and the damaged items replaced by the PHCN.
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