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Goods worth millions destroyed as fire razes Ekiti market

Goods worth millions destroyed as fire razes Ekiti market

Traders in Oja Oba market in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti state capital, have lost property worth about N150 million to an inferno.

According to eyewitnesses, the fire outbreak occurred around 7.30pm on Tuesday and razed the entire building belonging to Governor Ayodele Fayose’s Chief of Staff, Chief Dipo Anisulowo.

The building was formerly used by a bank before being converted to a market stall for traders.

The traders alleged that the incident was an arson attack.

The Chairman of the Association, Opeyemi Fakayode, said the fire started at about 7.30 pm when the security guards had already arrived.

He said the fire services couldn’t salvage the situation as they had no water.

He said: “None of us was able to salvage a pin from that place. Even the guard had arrived and was about changing his dresses behind the building when he came back to meet huge smoke coming through the windows.

“We suspected arson because one of the window’s blade had bent, meaning that someone must have done that for sinister intention. We suspected that was where they used to set the building on fire.

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“It could not have been electrical problem, because our light had been disconnected before the incident. Even the fuse of the generating set we were using collectively was intact and was put on neutral , which we believed could not have sparked fire.

“Some of us just went to market to buy new products to sell when the incident happened and we may end up having nothing if we have no help.

“When the fire fighters came with two tankers, one of them had no water while the other one with water could not pump, it became faulty.

“It was after this we called Afe Babalola University, which deployed its tanker but the property had already been razed down completely before it arrived,” he added.

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