A morning fire razed five offices at Freedom Radio in Kaduna State in
the wee hours of Sunday. The fire was said to have emanated from the
inverter room that houses the station’s electrical equipment.
Daily
Trust gathered that the offices affected were inverter room or
engineering room, Head of Marketing office , conference hall, security
office and drivers room. It was further gathered that the private
station went off air temporarily before it resumed transmission around
10:45 am Sunday.
The Station Head of Operations Abubakar Jiddah
Usman who confirmed the incident to Daily Trust said the fire started
around 2:30 am from the inverter room which houses so many equipment
while the power supply passes through the inverter to the station’s
transmitter.
” I think it could be heat or some kind of electric
fault which caused the fire and consumed about five offices. We went
off air but resumed around 10:45 am and God willing we will continue
with out transmission,” he said.
Our reporter observed that the properties and equipment destroyed ran into millions.