The Iyaloja of Oro land, Kwara State, Alhaja Mulikatu Jimoh, speaks to TUNDE OYEKOLA about a recent fire outbreak which destroyed about 30 shops in the Oro Central MarketWhen did you become the Iyaloja?
I was installed as the Iyaloja in 2015. I have been in the market selling yam tubers since my youthful days.How the fire started is known only to God because we were not in the market the day the fire incident happened. The market opens every five days and Monday, when the fire incident happened, was not a market day. The market was to open the following day, Tuesday.
On that Monday, it was the chairman of the transporters’ union that called and broke the news to us. He said the market had been engulfed in fire. When I got to the market, I met several people trying to put out the fire. Some people were calling the fire service while others went to the College of Education to hire a water tanker because the water in the two tanks of the borehole provided by the Federal government for the market had been exhausted. The fire could not be put out until the arrival of the fire service men, who came from Ilorin.
I learnt the shops that were affected were not less than 30. The fire mostly affected the stalls of yam sellers, yam flour shops, food vendors and farm tools sellers.
Go hope for something else, do you have a government
Which government, and besides its not a market in the north where you would have gotten hope from the government or Tinubu who is a burning market philanthropist.
Chai , sorry mama , they don't care about you