By Abdulsalam Muhammad

KANO – The management of Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) has distanced itself from the kano fire incidence at Sabon-Gari Market.

The company said “We wish to put the records straight that the fire incidence at Sabon-Gari market never emanated from power surge (spark)”.

In a press statement made available to Vanguard in Kano, signed by the company Chief Customer Relations Officer, Abubakar Yusuf pointed out that the feeder line supplying the market (11KV Murtala Mohammed feeder) which gets supply from club road injection substation was out of circuit due to load shedding since Friday by 5pm.

Kano Electricity Distribution Company ( KEDCO ) further revealed that “It is also on record that the two (2) dedicated transformers supplying the market are still intact and had no sign of any power surge (spark) “.

He also blamed an official of the fire service for making statement linking the Sabon Gari market fire incident to electrical fault.

“The fire service never call us to alert us of the incidence as they normally did when there is fire incidence but unfortunately for us, they just went ahead to public blaming us”.

The company also commiserate with Emir of Kano, state governor and entire people of the state over the inferno.