The headquarters of Chisco Transport Limited in Lagos was gutted
by fire yesterday.
The fire was said to have started after some hoodlums took
advantage of a political campaign rally to throw substances suspected to be
explosives into the premises of the transport company in apparent protest
against President Goodluck Jonathan’s poster on a building beside Chisco’s head
office.
According to a witness, who identified himself as Stanley, “it was
when the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign train was passing during
their political rally along Eko Bridge that some hoodlums supporting the party,
took advantage of the rally to throw objects into the premises of the company
when they saw President Jonathan’s billboard hung on the uncompleted building
beside Chisco Head Office, thinking the premises belongs to the Federal
Government.”
When Daily Sun visited the scene, the inferno had razed down about
25 luxury buses and trucks. Sources revealed that the building belongs to the
Industrial Training Fund (ITF), a Federal Government parastatal sharing a
common fence with the leading transport company.
was targeted by the hoodlums because of President Jonathan’s
billboard.
An employee of the transport company, who spoke on condition of
anonymity, told our correspondent, that the damage could have been worse if not
for the quick intervention of some employees of the company who sprang into
action to salvage the situation when they noticed the fire.
The workers were
said to have used the fire-extinguishers available in the premises to assist
fire fighters from both the state and Federal Fire Service to put off the fire.
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