Former Plateau Gov’s ADC, 4 Children Killed in Fire Outbre ak

 

 

On the early hours of Monday morning, Retired ASP Anthony Kwanmi, former Aide-de-Camp (ADC) to ex-Gov. Fidelis Tapgun of Plateau, was  killed along side his two daughters, Theresa and Kerry, and two sons, Thomas and Emmanuel in an inferno that gutted his residence in the Jenta-Adamu neighbourhood of Jos.


According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Terna Tyopev, the spokesman of the Plateau Police Command, Kwanmi’s wife, Charity and his daughter, Evelyn, survived the early morning fire disaster but sustained severe burns.

“The deceased were burnt to ashes; what were taken to the mortuary of Plateau Specialist Hospital in Jos were just the skeletons,”. 


 “The meter was mounted at the entrance to the building. There was a spark from the meter which started the fire. Because the meter was at the entrance, the fire prevented them from escaping. It quickly spread to other rooms in the house,” . 
A neighbor said.

“When Ì heard sounds of the fire, I rushed out and called out other neighbours and we tried to put out the fire, but it had already engulfed the entire house and there was nothing we could do about it.

But we succeeded in making sure that that not so many houses in our area were affected.

In spite of our efforts, some adjacent houses were affected but no life was lost,”  said Kabala Bako, The Village Head of Jenta-Adamu, whose residence shares a fence with that of the deceased