At Baboko market in Ilorin, the
kwara state capital was on fire on Sunday midnight. The fire began as a result
of inferno, goods worth of millions of naira were destroyed.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
reports that 20 shops were completely razed by the inferno which lasted several
hours.
NAN gathered that some shop
owners left huge sums of money in their shops when the incident occurred.
Sources said that the inferno was
triggered by a spark from an electric cable in one of the shops when
electricity was restored.
Some night guards at the market
were said to have noticed smoke billowing from one of the affected shops and
drew the attention of leadership of the market to it
They alerted fire fighters who
came to the scene and prevented the fire from spreading to other shops.
The chairman of Ilorin West Local
Government Council, Alhaji Tajudeen Zulu-Oloje, visited the scene of the
incident on Sunday. He said that he received a distress call from one of the
market officials around 2.00 am Sunday on the fire outbreak. He said the local
council would do its best to reconstruct the burnt shops and assist affected
traders.
Zulu-Oloje commended men of the
state fire service for the quick response.
Efforts to speak to the Special
Adviser on Emergency and Relief to State Governor Alhaji Duro Mohammed, on the
incident proved futile. (NAN)
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