Weeks after fire a outbreak wreaked havoc at Onipepeye bridge, along Lagos/Ibadan express way, where number of people were burnt to death, another fire incident has consumed Orita-Aperin market in Ibadan, Oyo State destroying goods worth millions of naira,
One of the market leaders, Abiodun Hammed known as Babalola in an interview with journalists at the scene of the incident on Saturday, said ‘the fire started by 12 midnight on Friday, and we immediately called on Oyo State Fire Service but unfortunately, when they got here, the nozzle of their truck was not functioning, so we have to resort liketo self-help by putting out the fire ourselves, or else, the lost would have been more than this”.
“The shops that were affected include shop of a jewelries seller, shop of a food ingredients seller, shop of a provisions seller, red oil seller and herbs seller among others, five million, six hundred thousand was the worth of jewelries that got burnt, and most of the goods affected in the shops of the herbs seller cannot be replace because they were ancient goods that cannot be seen on market again”, he said.
Latifat Adegbola appealed to the government to assist them financially, explaining that the money they used to buy the affected goods was collected based on interest.
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