Yusuf Aliyu, chairman of the Timber ‘B’ Hausa Line Association, on Sunday, narrated how the incident occurred at Katarko Market.
“I was at home at about 1 a.m. midnight when I received calls from different individuals that our market was on fire. In no time, I arrived at the market to see various timber shades and carpentry workshops on fire. Luckily enough the firefighters had already been informed and arrived on the scene on time. They were able to put down the fire around 4 a.m.
“About fifty timber shades and workshops were affected and properties worth millions of naira destroyed,” he said.Mr Aliyu said many poles and other electrical appliances in the market were dilapidated and needed to be replaced for safe power supply.In 2018, the same market got burnt following an electrical fault. In that incident too, properties worth millions of naira were lost.