The Kogi House of Assembly has been gutted by fire in the early hours of Today Monday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports in Lokoja that the incident took the guards by surprise.
Security personnel watching over the complex told the speaker of the house who visited the scene that they saw was a heavy smoke coming out of the complex this morning.
The guards said that the cause of the fire incident remained a mystery to them as they didn’t see the person or persons that set the complex ablaze.
The speaker of the House, Mr Mathew Kolawole, who spoke with newsmen at the assembly complex, expressed shock over the incident.
The speaker, however, said that the house would allow security agencies to investigate the fire incident to ascertain the root cause and level of damage.
