BREAKING: Confusion as CBN debunks fire accident reports in its Abuja office

The Central Bank of Nigeria has denied the fire accident reports said to have occurred in its headquarters office in Abuja.

The report of the fire outbreak which was earlier published in TheNewsGuru was debunked by CBN’s spokesperson, Isaac Okoroafor.

Okoroafor made the rebuttal in a phone conversation with TheNewsGuru.com.

He said, “Reports that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) head office building is on fire are false.

“Passersby who saw a pall of exhaust from the generator house far away from the building apparently mistook the exhaust for fire smoke.

“The CBN maintains a total security system that triggers safety alarms in the presence of smoke and so all fire engines and personnel received the alert only to discover that it was an unusual pall of exhaust.

“The affected generator has been rested and normal work has been uninterrupted, while the engineers are working to rectify the issues with the generator. We hereby assure the general public that there has been no fire at our building. “

TheNewsGuru in its earlier report stated that there was a fire outbreak at the premises of the apex bank.

The fire according to eyewitnesses was said to have started about a few minutes past six and lasted for about 30 minutes before it was put out.

TheNewsGuru.com also gathered that the Federal Capital Fire Service were at the scene to ensure that the fire did not get out of control.

Apart from the Federal Fire Service that deployed two firefighting trucks in the scene of the incident, a truck belonging to Julius Berger was also sited at the apex bank headquarters.

[ This story was re-edited]

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