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| Burnt section C of the Jos Main Market today |
JOS MAIN MARKET FIRE
INCIDENT: TRADERS LOST N200 MILLION-
CHAIRMAN
BY LOVINS YAKUBU
JULY, 21 2018
Over 200 shops and items estimated
to worth over two Hundred Million Naira (N200m)
are said to have been destroyed by fire inferno today at the popular Jos Main
market.
This was disclosed by the chairman;
section C of the market Aminu Bala in an exclusive interview with African Drum this afternoon. According to
Bala, the cause of the fire was still not known, he however, ruled out sabotage.
He described as very unfortunate a situation when traders successfully completed
their trading activities yesterday only for them to lost out everything this
morning to fire.
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| Bala Aminu, Chairman, section C, Jos Main Market |
The chairman commended the efforts
of security, fire service personnel for prompt response to the inferno which he
said really helped in halting the spread of the fire to other parts of the market.
He further called on government to come to the aid of the
victims because, according to him, “their source of livelihood has been grossly
affected”.
A source informed African Drum that this is the fourth
time the market was being gutted by fire. Jos Main Market was built during the
Late Solomon Lar administration and was at the time, the only of its kind in
West Africa. But today, the market is a shadow of itself.
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