The Niger State Government is set to institute further findings into the circumstances leading to the fire that gutted Zuma Rock recently.
The finding is with the view to establishing a concrete cause of the fire.
The Commissioner of Information Culture and Tourism, Jonathan Vatsa, in a statement noted that since the incident was reported, the Ministry had made attempts to get preliminary report on the strange development.
Vatsa stated that while the government was not ruling out natural causes like volcanic activities, attrition or friction of body of stones on the rock and other established scientific causes, oral traditional narrations indicated that such occurrence was always considered by traditionalists around the area in the past as a sign to the people on the good or bad things that will happen to them in future.
The Commissioner however stated that government would not subject the development to only traditional narrations but has concluded plans to conduct a very comprehensive scientific inquiry into the cause of the incident and come up with the best way to tackle it.
He said: “The government want to know if the incident has adverse effect on the health of the people and the implication for the Tourism development of the area as well as further scientific discovery that could contribute immensely to the body of knowledge.
“Since the incident occurred we have made contact with the people of the area and also specialists in geomorphology and we are ready to make further findings into the strange fire on the Zuma rock to clear all doubt.”
Vatsa advised the people to avoid unnecessary speculation or engage in any activity around the area that may be inimical to the action of the government to come out with comprehensive findings.
Since the incident, several reasons have been given for the strange development, with some alluding it to voodoo.
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