At about 11: 23am this morning at Block A Post graduate female Hostel, fire was sighted from a students called Gina’s room who wasn’t around when the fire started.
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It was gathered that Gina was currently in class when the fire started
It was gathered by shoutouttvblog that the fire incident started due to electric fault as many wrong wired connections were sited, other students from block B complained about exposed wires in their rooms and thank God that this happened during the day and not at night when they are sleeping.
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Many student complained lack of management from porters, and unavailability of porter staff and their nonchalant attitude when their attentions is needed
” When the fire started we ran to call the porters but they ignored us until the fire was out of control and it affected all the rooms up floor except one – They said
This is coming after they haven’t had water to bath for 3 days in this same hostel, which was inconvenient for them going outside the hostel to take their bath before attending classes.
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Shoutouttvblog notice that despite the two van of fire fighters the building was still on fire as at the time of filing this report.
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Many affected student were crying as they loose valuables ( school documents, Clothes, textBooks, shoes,Human hair, mattress, expensive gold chains, fan etc.)
Management of uniben have visited the scene and collected numbers of affected students and promise to support.
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uniben post graduate female hostel Block A
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