Fire guts Oba market as council chairman explains cause

By Ozioruva Aliu

BENIN CITY—A late-night occurrence connected Wednesday gutted portion of the Oba Market successful Benin City, adjacent arsenic reconstruction enactment connected the installation is inactive ongoing. The Chairman of Oredo Local Government Area, Engr. Gabriel Iduseri, attributed the incidental to a star sheet malfunction.

This is the 2nd clip successful 5 years that the fashionable marketplace has been affected by fire.

Eyewitnesses said they were successful their shops other the marketplace erstwhile they noticed fume coming from a conception wherever reconstruction enactment was ongoing. They instantly mobilized, on with section vigilantes, portion the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) successful complaint of Oba Market Police Station led his men to the scene. The DPO reportedly alerted the occurrence service, which joined civilians successful battling the flames for astir 3 hours earlier the occurrence was contained.

Speaking to journalists aft inspecting the scene, Engr. Iduseri confirmed that lone 1 store was affected. He praised the swift effect of firefighters and information personnel, which prevented the occurrence from spreading.

He said, “We learnt that a star sheet caused the fire. We volition suspend further installation of star panels and behaviour a thorough inspection of each electrical connections successful the marketplace to forestall aboriginal incidents.

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“I besides privation to guarantee the affected trader that we volition enactment them to instrumentality to business. Thankfully, nary lives were lost, and the harm was minimal. The Oredo Local Government was afloat connected crushed to forestall immoderate lawsuit of looting.”

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