A fire incident has razed shops and destroyed property worth millions of naira at the Moniya Garage in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

The incident occurred in the early hours of Monday, December 2, 2024.

Confirming the inferno via a statement, the General Manager of Oyo State Fire Services Agency, Yemi Akinyinka, said the agency received a distress call about the fire incident from one Adelola at about 12:27 a.m. on Monday, and immediately deployed personnel to the scene.

Akinyinka said the personnel of the agency on getting to the scene discovered that the fire had affected rows of shops and container shops at the garage.

He stated: “The fire incident was reported to the Agency at exactly 00:27hrs by one Mr Adelola that there were shops on fire at Moniya Garage, Oja Agbe, Ibadan.

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“Immediately, the personnel of this agency, led by ACFS Oyedeji, was deployed to the scene of the incident.

“We swiftly swung into action and we were able to curtail the fire and restrict it from spreading to all nearby shops and other properties.”

Akinyinka disclosed that no life was lost to the fire incident, but properties worth millions of naira were destroyed.

The general manager said the remote cause of the fire incident was traced to the plugging of electrical appliances unattended to.

Akinyinka urged the people of Oyo State to handle fire with care to avoid fire incidents.

The Star