The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has stated that there was an inferno at its exhibit dump in Irebi, Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers state.
A dump is a place used by security agencies as a storage facility.
This was contained in a statement signed by Wilson Uwujaren.
According to Uwujaren, the commission’s spokesman, the incident occurred in the early hours of Monday.
He added that the incident affected “most of the trucks parked in the facility”, before the fire was put out by firefighters.
Uwujaren added that George Ekpungu, secretary to the commission, was at the scene of the incident on Tuesday.
The commission also gave the assurance that investigation had commenced to determine the cause of the inferno.
The EFCC also said measures will be put in place to safeguard all exhibit dumps across the country.
The development comes years after fire razed a part of the EFCC headquarters in Abuja.
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