![]() We saw people including women looting refrigerators and standing air conditioners, computers etc. All the CCTV footage could not show anybody that we could identify. ![]() We have not been able to detect instances of an insider job. But we have significant video footage of what happened and we have sent it to Lagos and Federal Governments to initiate the process of investigation on our behalf. We also have CCTV footage of how the attack happened and we found it interesting because they were also destroying our CCTV in order not to be captured. We are initiating the process of prosecuting them because they were found in the premise. They have been handed over to the Nigerian Police. When the Nigerian Navy came to provide us with support to repel the hoodlums, they were able to arrest about seven of them. Are you pursuing that angle and what have you found out? So, regarding that, and there are insulations that it seems like an insider job due to the coordination of the attack. When the Minister of Transportation visited, he said that if the hoodlums were not arrested they would do it again. We have sustained our operations and we are in the building because it was a wing that was burnt. We had concern about power supply to the building which was cut off because of the fire and we had downtime of about two days before our payment system resumed operation. The critical aspects of our operations within the headquarter building such as our ICT, which is our platform for payment was not affected. No details of the valuation yet but once we have those numbers we will make then public because we are public entity and everything we do is meant for the citizens to know. It was quite a significant impact on the building and our logistics. There were also 27 vehicles that were burnt within our office premises and car park, and there were those that were looted. So, you can see that the building has insurance, furniture insurance and computers that we have. So, once the integrity report is ready, the insurance companies would now takeover. We have engaged a company to do the integrity test in order to determine what it is that arise from the burning of that part of our building. Any valuation yet of how much the rebuilding would cost? Looking at the level of destruction, it is definitely something and you said that the insurance companies are already looking at the books. ![]() We paid more attention in protecting the port locations because that is where we have huge investment and it’s the gateway to the nation’s economy. We never see our corporate headquarters as a vulnerable place that we need to beef up security beyond what we usually have. We had two incidents of attacks on Tin-Can Island Port but the hoodlums were repelled and they went back to prepare before launching another attack on Tin-Can. We got Nigerian Navy to provide back-up that Tuesday night to ensure the port was protected. To our minds, we were more concerned about the critical infrastructure in the port location and we deployed the necessary security support to Tin-Can and Apapa Ports. He passed on after a week of being hospitalalised following that attack at Tin-Can. On Tuesday, we recorded a challenging attack on the Tin-Can Island Port and one of the Policemen was badly injured. ![]()
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