During the visit, the governor commiserated with the victims calling on them to consider the accident as an act of Allah, saying that they should always check on their electrical appliances before leaving their shops at the end of the day’s business.
He also constituted a committee under a renowned Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Umar Kanoma to ascertain the losses of the traders and submit its report within the next seven days so that the state government can assist the victims to return to their respective businesses. While conducting the governor round the affected shops, the Chairman of the United Traders Association, Alhaji Balan vice, said the fire started around 4am of Sunday and that since then, the traders as well as officials of the Ministry of Commerce and Industries did not rest on their oars but assisted in stopping the inferno from further spread.
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