An
early morning inferno, Thursday, razed a warehouse belonging to Coscharis Group
located at the Kirikiri Industrial, Mazamaza, Area of Lagos State, destroying
property worth billions of naira.
The
warehouse was used for storing computer equipment, Abro Petrochemical products,
vehicles and inverter batteries, auto spare parts, motorcycles and tires.
Workers
of the company said goods worth billions of naira were destroyed by the fire
that reportedly started about 4am.
By
the time firefighters from the Lagos State Fire Service and the Nigerian Navy
arrived the scene; the fire grown which they battled with for over five hours.
Materials
such as computer equipment, petrochemical products, vehicles, inverter
batteries, auto spare parts, motorcycles and tyres, stored in the warehouse,
were also said to have escalated the intensity of the fire.
Although
the cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained, some of the workers who spoke on
the condition of anonymity attributed it to electrical spark.
The
burnt warehouse owned by business mogul, Cosmas Maduka, was said to have been
undergoing renovations after one of its divisions was moved to another area of
Lagos.
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