The Kano State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Alhaji Munkaila Abdullahi and his wife and two daughters have died in an unfortunate house inferno.
The incident that occurred at his Nassarawa GRA official residence yesterday morning was said to have been triggered by fire from a split air conditioner in the sitting room.
Briefing reporters on the tragic incident in his office, the Kano State Police Commissioner, Ibrahim Idris ruled out sabotage, pointing out that detectives from the command and men from fire service have started to investigate the circumstances leading to the incident.
“Today (yesterday) at about 4.30am, the policemen on guard duty at the official residence of the Kano Resident Electoral Commissioner, Alhaji Munkaila Abdullahi located at 2 Sir Kashim Road observed a fire emanating from split air conditioners in the sitting room,“ he stated.
The police commissioner further explained that efforts by the officers severally to get in touch with the victims failed. He said that the officers were banging on the doors and attempting to break windows of the toilet. They could not.
The police Commissioner said that at the point the officers on duty and the local guards secured entrance into the building, they discovered the sitting room was engulfed by fire and smoke.
Idris further said that the bodies of the deceased REC, his wife and two daughters were discovered in the toilet of the master bedroom while still unconscious.
“They were quickly removed and moved to the Murtala Mohammed Hospital where doctors confirmed that the family of four died from inhaling hot and black smoke.”
May The Most High remember Munkaila Abdullahi, his wife and their two daughters in the soon-coming day of His Son. Amen.