Accidents and SafetyFire Outbreak In Nsukka Market, Over 20 Shops, Goods Destroyed

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ENUGU — Over twenty shops were on Monday gutted by fire in Ogige Main Market, Nsukka, Enugu State destroying goods and properties worth millions of naira in the Phone Villa section of the market.

According to a source who pleaded anonymity, most of the affected shops are where new phones and phone accessories are sold and the fire started from one of the shops and spread to others as shop owners were at home due to the Monday sit-at-home in the South East.

The quick intervention of Nsukka fire service saved the situation; it quelled the escalation of the fire from further destruction of other shops and properties in the market.

Speaking with newsmen Mrs. Ngozi Ozioko, Chairperson of the market said she got series of distress calls from traders that part of the market had been gutted by fire and immediately alerted the fire service office in Nsukka and Enugu who responded immediately.

‘I thank God for their prompt response without that the entire market would have been destroyed by the inferno,” Ozioko said.

‘No shop inside the market is affected by the fire, only the shops in the Peace Plaza building are affected,’ she further explained.

Ozioko then promised to set up a committee to ascertain the course of the fire outbreak and the cost of items destroyed.

She expressed concern as to what could have ignited the fire as shops were under lock and key in compliance with the IPOB Monday sit-at-home and the fact that the market has been without electricity for couple of days now due to faulty transformer.

‘Nobody is inside the market today because of sit-at-home, and more so, for the past four days, there has been no electricity in the market because our transformer developed a fault.

‘Unless the traders in that Peace Plaza connected light from another place,’ she said.

Mr. Okwudili Ohaa, the Chief Fire Officer in Enugu State, confirmed the fire incident saying that he alerted Nsukka and Orba firefighters of the situation when he received the distress call from Ozioko, the Chairperson of Ogige Main Market.

He then disclosed that his team will investigate the cause of the fire and would continue to safeguard lives and properties of the good people of Enugu.

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