Says ,It Took Fire Fighters Three Hours to Get Here
A Lagos-based car dealer simply identified as Moses Benz has broken his recounted his ordeal after losing multi-billion Naira worth of cars to inferno at car lot.
Moses’ car lot was last week Friday engulfed by fire with an estimate of 21 cars reportedly destroyed.
Videos shared on social media showed rows of the burnt cars which left the auto dealer broken.
The incident reportedly occurred in Egbeda area of Lagos state.
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Speaking in a video shared on X on Monday, Moses narrated how the incident occurred.
The car dealer revealed that he frequently monitors the cars at night until the night of the incident.
‘I closed here around 10 at night. I got home; did my normal thing and slept. Normally, I used to check my camera by 2 midnight till 4am. Sometimes, I check as early as 6am.
‘By two o’clock, my phone rang. It was the security man that called me. I said let me quickly check the camera before I pick his call. When I opened my phone to check my camera, I saw fire in this place.’ He said.
Moses expressed surprise over the incident as he claimed that all precautionary measured were put in place within the facility.
Meanwhile, Moses alleged delay in response by the Fire Fighters as he claimed it took three hours before the fire fighters arrived.
‘I was surprised because there is water pipe around here. I was seeing them as they tried to quench the fire, but the fire kept coming up. I have more than 10 fire extinguishers here.
‘They opened it. Yet, the fire kept burning. I called fire service, Area N and several stations. It took three hours before they got here.
Most of my customers’ cars are here. My own cars too were here that got burnt. Cars of over N200 million got burnt- more than 21 pieces.’ He said.
Moses pleaded with his customers as he held that he was ignorant of what happened.
‘It’s God that knows what happened. I don’t know what happened.’
‘Please I use this opportunity to beg all my customers that have cars here and have business with me, that I’m very sorry. I don’t know what happened.
‘There was water pipe, fire extinguisher, and even the fire fighters that came here were three. Yet, the fire did not stop. It’s only God that knows what happened.
‘The one that pained me the most is the cars of my customers. I spent over N200 million to get those cars but they are now unable to pick them.’ He added.
