By Pathfinder Reporter
Wednesday April 2, 2025
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The headquarters of a political party has reportedly been set on fire.
This sad incident took place not in Nigeria but far away in New Mexico, the 47th state of the United States of America where the headquarters of the Republican Party of New Mexico was set on fire on Sunday.
Such kind of incidents have always been identified with Nigeria and other African nations, but the recent development in the US explained that no country in the world is immune from political gangsterism.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in a statement, said it was leading the investigation to find those behind the act.
Fire officials in Albuquerque, the largest city in Democratic-controlled New Mexico, were reportedly called to the blaze around 6 am and put it out in five minutes.
In a post on social media, Albuquerque Fire Rescue said the single-story structure suffered damage to its entryway and smoke damage throughout.
The fire comes after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said it arrested 48 illegal immigrants, 20 of them with criminal convictions, during raids in Albuquerque, state capital Santa Fe and Roswell, New Mexico earlier this month.
The graffiti appeared to equate the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan hate group to ICE, the agency President Donald Trump has tasked to deport millions of illegal immigrants.
At the time of filing this report, has not yet commented on the development.
“Our state leaders must reinforce through decisive action that these cowardly attacks will not be tolerated,” Republican Party of New Mexico Chairwoman Amy Barela said in a statement.
The Democratic Party of New Mexico said it condemned the vandalism of the Republican Party headquarters.
“We firmly maintain that this sort of act has absolutely no place in our democracy. We hope whoever is responsible is found and held accountable,” the state Democratic Party said on social media.
The fire follows the conviction this month of a failed Republican candidate for the New Mexico House of Representatives who carried out drive-by shootings on the Albuquerque homes of Democratic officials during 2022 and 2023.
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