Property was destroyed by fire at the Rivers State Secretariat Complex in Port Harcourt on Monday evening when a section of the Podium Block was destroyed.
The Rivers State Pension Board’s headquarters are located in the affected area.
Iyingi Brown, the head of service, attributed the incident to an electrical fault in a voicemail to Channels Television.
She claimed that firefighters from the military, the Federal Fire Service, and the State Fire Service battled the fire before it was finally put out.
The Rivers State Pension Board was disbanded shortly after Governor Siminalayi Fubara without giving a reason for the decision.
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It also came in response to the governor’s recent warning to permanent secretaries, who he claimed, performed poorly during the state’s emergency rule period.
Fubara had stated that the appropriate response would be to use such records against the erring officers.
The timing of the fire incident has raised public questions about whether the board’s dissolution was a coincidence or an attempt to destroy important documents.
Source: Channels TV
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