A fire has broken out inside the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s (EFCC) exhibit storage facility in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The event occurred in the early hours of Monday in the state capital’s Iriebi neighborhood.
The fire burned multiple trucks in the facility, according to a statement signed by EFCC’s Head of Media & Publicity, Wilson Uwajaren, on Tuesday.
“The incident which occurred in the early hours of the day, affected most of the trucks parked in the facility before the fire was put out by men of the Federal Fire Service
“Secretary to the Commission, Dr. George Ekpungu, who was at the scene of the incident on Tuesday March 15, assured that investigation had commenced to determine the cause of the inferno, while measures will be put in place to safeguard all exhibit dumps across the country,” it read.
In November 2018, there was also a fire incident at the Wuse 2 Zonal office of the EFCC.
