Millions of naira worth of goods and other valuables were destroyed in Monday’s fire that destroyed the famed Oranyan market’s herbal sector in the Ibadan South East local government area.
No fewer than twenty shops were affected but no life was lost to the incident.
According to Alfijir Labarai, the fire incident began in one of the impacted stores at around 2:45 am and eventually spread to the other stores.
Giving an eyewitness account, one of the occupants of residential buildings adjacent to the market who identifies himself as Nureni Akano, said they were woke up with thick flames that emanated from the scene of the incident.
According to him, “We put up efforts to resist the fire from spreading to other areas but to no avail as it became uncontrollable.
“We couldn’t trace the source of the incident but it might not be unconnected with the power surge.
Mr. Yemi Akinyinka, the general manager of Oyo State Fire Services, confirmed the event and stated that at precisely 23:25 hours, a fire emergency call was received by the Fire Services Headquarters.
He disclosed that the incident affected twenty (20) prefabricated shops out of multiple adjourning rows of shops.
According to him, “Properties worth millions of naira were affected while properties worth billions of naira were saved but no life was lost.
“Our personnel returned to station at exactly 3:36hrs”.
For more information about Alfijir labarai you can follow us at 👇
https://twitter.com/Musabestseller?s=09
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089640289165
https://www.threads.net/@alfijirlabarai
https://www.youtube.com/@BestsellerChannel12
https://www.instagram.com/musa_bestseller?utm_source=qr&r=nametag
Ko a latsa nan don shiga Group Whatsapp na Alfijr Labarai 👇👇
https://chat.whatsapp.com/ELQRQyq1zGn7zpAVP8DwNj