Thursday, 27 March 2014
The acting
Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Sarah Alade, on Wednesday said
no serious damage was recorded in the fire incident which gulfed the
bank’s office annex in Lagos on Tuesday.
Alade
disclosed this to newsmen on yesterday in Lagos while on a visit to the
affected building to determine the extent of the damage.
She attributed
the cause of the fire to “electrical spark” which destroyed some furniture and
personal effects of some Lagos staff.
Alade promised
that, some records destroyed by the fire, would be recovered by the Disaster
Recovering Unit of the bank.
“'There was no
loss of life. In terms of documents, only few were lost and we have back up for
that.
“Mostly,
personal effects were lost and which can be replaced,” she said.
The CBN boss,
however, said that the incident affected
foreign exchange trading for one day.
According to
her, the workers occupying the affected building and which had already been
earmarked for demolition, would be relocated to a new building in the premises.
Alade also
said that the fire did not affect the governor's office as earlier reported by
some media.
She said that
the incident affected the first floor of the affected building housing the
banking hall.
Alade said
that CBN engineers would visit the site today, Thursday, March 27, to determine
the structural integrity of affected building. (NAN)
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