Another Market Up in Flames in Edo as Popular Oba Market is Gutted by Fire
by Adekunbi EroOba Market, perhaps the biggest and most popular market in Benin City, Edo State capital went up in flames in the early hours of Monday with frantic efforts to put out the inferno yielding little result.
TELL gathered that the fire started some around 11 pm on Sunday but
The magazine learnt that the Edo State fire service which is located within the precinct of the market was unable to respond to distress calls by the traders because it had been comatose for many years. The Chief Security Officer, CSO to the governor, was however said to have alerted the Federal Fire Service in Asaba whose men fortunately were
The Assistant Controller of the fire service, Karibo Samson, who spoke to journalists at the scene of the tragic fire, said the cause of the fire could not be immediately ascertained as it needed to be thoroughly investigated. Samson confirmed that they received a call
According to Samson, when they called him, he in turn reached out to the fire services of the Nigerian Air Force and the National Petroleum Development Company, NPDC for support. He said unfortunately NPDC did
Market is on fire, as market owners have become victims of the Obaseki lead administration’s failure to strengthen the Edo State Fire Services, despite the many fire outbreaks that have occurred in the
The magazine observed that the market suffered massive destruction
Some traders were however lucky to have gotten timely information about the outbreak of fire around after 11 pm and were able to
According to her, “They called me around 1amtoday that Oba market is
Another trader who deals on cosmetics, Habiba said she lost her goods worth millions of naira. Habiba explained that immediately they opened the market last week following the COVID-19 closure, “I decided to go
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