Retired ASP
Anthony Kwame, former Aide-de-Camp to ex-Governor Fidelis Tapgun of Plateau
State, was on Monday morning killed in
an inferno that gutted his residence in the Jenta-Adamu neighbourhood of
Jos
.
Also
killed along with the retired police officer were his two daughters, Theresa
and Kerry, and son, Emmanuel.
According
to Mr Terna Tyopev, the spokesman of the Plateau Police Command, Kwame’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,’’ Tyopev told News Agency of Nigeria
in Jos on Monday.
The
cause of the fire was not known but neighbours told NAN that the fire started
around 1am.
“The fire started around 1am, that is all I
am sure of,’’ a neighbour, Tina Fobur, said.
The
Village Head of Jenta-Adamu, Mr Kabala Bako, whose residence shares a fence
with that of the deceased, said that he rushed out of his house when he heard
sounds of the fire.
“When
Ì rushed out, I 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,’’ he said.
The two survivors, currently on admission at Plateau
Specialist Hospital, could not speak with NAN on the possible causes of the
fire
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