Ekiti State Federal Polytechnic's Engineering School complex was at the weekend gutted by fire, which completely burnt the offices of the Dean and other adjourning offices and a large classroom.
The ravaging fire was first noticed at 11 pm on Friday. According to the rector of the school, an emergency meeting of the Governing Council was still in session around 11:05 pm when some students raised the alarm about the fire. It took the combined efforts of the men of the Ekiti State Fire Service to put out the fire.
Speaking on the incident, the Rector of the polytechnic, Dr. Taiwo Akande, who also took part in the four-hour effort to put the fire under control, along with members of the Governing Council, described the disaster as a monumental proportions, with so many sensitive and irreplaceable documents and materials ranging from computer systems, furniture items, office cabinets and the building complex consumed by the inferno.
Akande added that the intensity of the fire was so much that the combined efforts of the men of the Ekiti State Fire Service, the Polytechnic fire fighting officers and the students' strenuous efforts to put it out proved abortive.
She however noted that although the cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained because there was neither electricity supply nor any bush burning at the time of the incident, investigators would be commissioned to unravel the mystery behind the inferno.
Akande also said the loss incurred by the polytechnic was colossal and appealed to the Ekiti State Government, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), and other arms of the Federal Government to come to the aid of the Polytechnic in mitigating the loss.
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