Music equipments and other properties worth millions of naira, have been razed to ashes, as fire gutted the music studio of Nigerian gospel musician Mrs. Chinyere Udoma.
The fire outbreak, which occured on Tuesday, started at about 11.am at the music studio, located along the Plot 3115 Eko Akete Jakonde Estate Amuwo Odifin LGA Lagos State.
Recounting her ordeal, Mrs. Udoma said she was on her way to the airport to board a flight for her trip, only to be contacted and informed that her music studio was on fire, which made her to cancel her planned trip and rush to the studio.
However before she arrived at her studio, the entire building had been razed down by the fire.
According to her, the fire was caused by power surge which emanated from wrong wiring/electricity connection in the Studio.
Mrs. Udoma, who spoke in an interview with our reporter, recalled that she had severally complained to the landlord of the building about the wrong connection, warning him of its potential dangers, as it could only be corrected from the side of the landlord.
She, however, said the landlord refused to look into her complain this, she said, made her to go to the Eko Electric Distribution (EKEDC) office, where they charged her the sum of N300,000 to reconnect the light from scratch, adding that it was after connection the said reconnection that fire outbreak occured.
While the total value and worth of the equipments and other items destroyed in the studio by the inferno is yet to be ascertained; she lamented the extent of damages caused by the fire incident. She also regretted that she would now be forced to start from scratch again to fix and re-equip her studio, even in this presence of this harsh economic situation in the country.
Fire Guts Chinyere Udoma’s Music Studio, Destroys Property Worth Millions of Naira
