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...For a better society... Wednesday, December 08 2004 Vol 13 No.44 News Editorial Politics Opinion Features The Arts Sports Education Business Money/Market Travels/Tourism Property/Environment Columnists View From America Fire service seeks N.5m life line BISIRIYU OLAOYE, (Deputy News Editor) LAGOS command of the Federal Fire Service is on the brink of "total collapse" unless it raises N500,000 to repair all its broken-down equipment. In a statement yesterday, the command stated that repair of the fire appliances was necessary to enable it perform effectively especially with the commencement of harmattan which is usually associated with various fire hazards. The statement signed by the command spokesman Mr. Elechi Collins, said the assistance of the stakeholders to the command would go a long way as it has not been given any running grant by government since the beginning of this year. "Our fire appliances covering most of the zones within Lagos metropolis have all broken down and we make bold to say that since the year started, we have not been given a kobo for the running of the command. "The zones and stations which fire engines mostly affected are, Awolowo and 1004 fire stations. These stations cover Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Lekki, etc. The other stations are Festac and Ebute-Metta both cover Festac town, Trade Fair and Badagry community. While Ebute-Metta covers the Mainland and Apapa Wharf zone," the command further stated. Giving the break down of the amount of money each station requires, the statement said, "Awolowo fire station, N98,000; 1004 fire station, N57,300; Festac station; N126,000; Ebute-Metta, N89,000; and Apapa fire station, N82,600." The above stations are not currently functioning. In view of heavy investments in these areas, we are appealing to corporate organisations and well-spirited Nigerians to come to our aid by taking upon themselves the repair of one or more of these appliances to enable us protect investments too numerous to account in the affected areas. "This clarion call becomes necessary and timely hence the period we are into, is that of harmattan, associated with various degrees of fire hazards. "Therefore, it will serve both interest if stakeholders take up the repair of these broken down fire engines and put them into effective functional state to give adequate fire coverage to the above mentioned zones and stations to avoid fire disasters and make Christmas season fire incident free," the command added. � 2004 @ Champion Newspapers Limited (All Right Reserved). Powered By dnetsystems.net dnet�

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