Elder Canaan Lucky, 66, is one of the shop owners at Bishop Okoye Street market, in the Mile 3 area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, which went up in flames on Friday, February 19. In this interview with DENNIS NAKU, the businessman counts his lossesI am Elder Canaan Lucky and I deal majorly in rice; I sell bags of rice. I also sell beans, salt, oil and other items.
We were already in our houses when they called around past eight in the evening that the market was on fire. So, we had to rush down to find out what was happening. By the time we got here, the fire was raging, so we were not able to recover anything.I have two stores, which are like warehouses. One was burnt by the fire but unfortunately even my other store, which the fire did not extend to, was looted.