Fire guts CACOL office in Lagos 


The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL)’s national secretariat on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Lagos state was Wednesday gutted by fire.


CACOL in a statement signed by its director of organization,Tola Oresanwo, on behalf of its chairman, Mr. Debo Adeniran, stated that, “The Humanity Centre that houses headquarters of many civil society organisations, including the Centre for CACOL, gutted fire Wednesday after the office closed for the day’s commitments and locked the building on Tuesday.”

The group noted that, the immediate and remote causes of the inferno which gutted the ante room to the director of administration’s office are not known but electrical surge was suspected as the likely cause.

It noted that due to the fact that all doors to other offices were securely closed, the fire did not go beyond the office where it originated from and that only the smoke passed through the openings around the entrances and left thick hoots on all the office equipment, furniture, fittings, walls and the floors of other offices.


CACOL said the immediate response of people living around who  had to break the main access door and the windows of the office where the fire was raging, led to  putting it out.


The group stated further  that the fire  destroyed office equipment, electronics, furniture and fittings valued at millions of naira and that the only consolation was that no life was lost.
CACOL added that while the fire was raging, some of the residents of the area, called the Lagos State Emergency number (112) but were asked some trivial questions.