Tragedy was been averted at Ijero Ekiti, Ijero Local Government Area of Ekiti State, as sympathisers rescued six children unhurt when fire razed down a section of Owa Ajero’s palace in the community.
It was gathered that the six children of Owa Ajero, Oba Joseph Adebayo Adewole, were trapped in their quarters when the inferno started around 4pm before they were evacuated by whiskers.
Narrating how the incident occurred, Olori Christianah Adewole, disclosed the fire suddenly surged from a section of the palace called Abokoaye and burnt the entire rooms therein.
Olori Adewole added that the four-bedroom flat was destroyed and it took the intervention of sympathisers to rescue six children who were inside the rooms in the bungalow.
She said some visitors who came to the palace noticed the thick smoke from that section and raised the alarm before sympathisers came to quench it and prevented the inferno from spreading to the first floor of the one -storey building and the adjoining buildings
Ekiti state Governor, Kayode Fayemi, who paid a visit to the monarch, commiserated with Oba Adewole over the destruction.
The governor, represented by his Chief of Staff, Hon. Biodun Omoleye, visited the palace for on- the- spot assessment of the damaged palace and sympathised with the monarch over the fire incident .
Fayemi assured the monarch of government’s support to rebuild the damaged section and renovate other areas that needed rehabilitation
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