At about 11pm yesterday Friday 14 November, fire ravaged the Engineering Complex of the Federal Polytechnic Ado-Ekiti housing the office of the Dean of the School of Engineering, the Heads of Department of Mechanical, Civil, Electrical/ Electronics and Agricultural Engineering, lecturers' offices, as well as a large classroom.
At about 11pm yesterday Friday 14 November, fire ravaged in the Engineering Complex of the Federal Polytechnic Ado-Ekiti. The Engineering Complex houses the office of the Dean of the School of Engineering, the Heads of Department of Mechanical, Civil, Electrical/ Electronics and Agricultural Engineering, lecturers' offices, as well as a large classroom.
According to Punch, the Rector of the Institution Dr. Taiwo Akande, described it as a disaster of monumental proportions. She lamented that so many sensitive and un-replaceable documents and materials ranging from computers, furniture, office cabinets. According to her, an emergency meeting of the Governing Council was still on around 11:05 pm when some students raised alarm about the fire.
Men of the Ekiti State Fire Service, the Polytechnic Fire Service team, security officials and students, along with the Rector of the Institution, Dr. Akande, members of the Governing Council, as well as some top officials of the Polytechnic took risks to prevent the fire from spreading to other facilities in the School.
In a statement on Saturday by the Deputy Registrar (Information), Mr. Ade Adeyemi-Adejolu said that the cause of the fire had yet to be ascertained because there was neither electricity supply nor any bush burning at the time of the incident. He added that investigation would be launched to unravel the cause.
The Rector appealed to the Ekiti State Government, the National Emergency Management Agency, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, and other arms of the Federal Government to come to the aid of the Polytechnic in mitigating the monumental loses.