A fire incident occurred inside the Cross River State Government House that affected offices attached to the State Governor, Ben Ayade.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that the Government House in the capital city houses the office of the Governor and some civil servants as well as aides to the governor.
The fire incident affected vital official documents as confirmed by Mrs Olumayowa Olomola, Commanding Officer, Calabar Command of the Federal Fire Service.
Olomola disclosed that the fire, which occurred between the late hours of Saturday and the early hours of Sunday, started from an electrical spark from a generator house.
It was gathered that some vital documents were also affected by the fire that lasted more than three hours. It took the intervention of the Federal Fire Service to put out the fire.
Meanwhile, the Cross River Government has said that the fire incident did not cause major damage.
Mr Christian Ita, Special Adviser on Media to the Governor said, “it was just a minor incident and no damage was caused by the incident. There was also no file damaged.
“It was only a building attached to Governor’s Office and no major activity takes place there”.