Fire, yesterday, razed over 200 shops in the plank section of the popular Sango Market, Ibadan leading to the loss of planks estimated at over N250 million.
A trader in the market, who spoke to Vanguard, said the fire started after he left his shop where he had attended to a customer.
“Shortly after I attended to a customer who called me on phone, I had the call that the shops had caught fire.”
Another trader said several sawing machines and other logging equipment were lost to the fire.
He lamented the inefficiency of the Fire Service men. “Each time the vehicle left to refill water, we lost more shops because the fire would gain more ground. Don’t forget this is the time of the year when fire incidents are rampant because we are in the dry season. More fire service vehicles are needed to forestall possible overnight fire here. As you can see, we now pay to bring water tanker to help the fire service men.”
He called on the state government to come to the aid of the traders.
