Mientei Ayawei, son of a former Bayelsa State
Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development,
Chief Nimibofa Ayawei, and his lover, Happiness,
have been burnt to death in an apartment fire.
The very sad incident occurred on Saturday at the
NIIT area of Tombia in Yenagoa, the state capital.
Two other persons were in another room in the
house, but they managed to escape death.
The cause of the inferno could not be ascertained but
a source close to the family of Ayawei, the current
Chairman of the Bayelsa State Board of Internal
Revenue, said the fire was caused by a high
electricity voltage.
The source told The Punch that high voltage, which
allegedly sparked fire through electric extension,
started by 4 am on that day.
He said the fire, which razed nearly all the rooms and
property in the one-storey building, adjacent a filling
station owned by the former commissioner, started
from the apartment where Mientei and his girlfriend
were.
The source, who claimed to be a sibling of the victim
(Mientei), said when the fire allegedly started, the
duo of Mientei and Happiness were sleeping.
He said the deceased got knowledge of the fire when
the whole room they were in had already been
enveloped by smoke and furnace.
He said Mientei, 25, had just finished his degree
programme in Human Resources Management, from
a university in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
It was learnt that firefighters arrived the scene after
some hours.
The presence of firefighters were said to have saved
other buildings in the neighbourhood, including a
filling station, Dannielo Pulo, from being consumed.
He said the firefighters did their best to extinguish
the fire and that their efforts were commendable.
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