Lagos shuts Ejigbo Fire Station over repeated attacks on firefighters

The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service has unopen its Ejigbo Fire Station indefinitely pursuing repeated reported attacks connected its personnel, portion calling connected information agencies to analyse the incidents impartially.

The Service said the closure was indispensable to support firefighters and firefighting instrumentality aft unit were allegedly assaulted astatine the presumption connected Tuesday, October 13, and Friday, October 16, 2026.

According to the agency, the archetypal incidental was reported to the Ejigbo Police Station, but the alleged attackers returned days aboriginal and disrupted operations contempt the involution of elder constabulary officials.

The Controller-General of the Service, Mrs Margaret Adeseye, condemned the reported assaults, informing that attacks connected exigency responders could endanger nationalist information and hamper the transportation of indispensable services.

In a statement, Adeseye said the incidents had raised superior concerns astir the information of firefighters and different exigency unit liable for protecting lives and spot crossed Lagos State.

She emphasised that exigency responders indispensable beryllium allowed to transportation retired their legally assigned responsibilities without being subjected to violence, intimidation oregon unlawful interference.

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