The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Command of the Nigerian Police on Monday arrested a 9-year-old girl arsonist captured by CCTV footage who set the Ebeano supermarket in the Lokogoma area of Abuja ablaze.
AbujaCityJournal earlier reports that a fire razed the multi-million Naira shopping mall all night on Saturday, July 17, 2021, into the early hours of the next day.
In the CCTV footage shared on social media, the young girl dressed in a black T-Shirt and jeans is said to have caused the fire at uncertain time, after she was seen walking down the aisle where books, lighters, and gas cylinders are stocked up on the shelves, before lighting up a fire that would go on to engulf the entire building.
The cause of the fire was said to be unascertained at the time, but in the CCTV video footage, she walked away briskly and vanished out of sight.
Ebeano is one of Nigeria’s biggest supermarket brands.
Arsonists have however been targeting some of its outlets in recent times.