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For a second consecutive week, fire has destroyed
property worth millions in Minna the Niger state capital.
This morning, the
Hajia Aisha Garba plaza in Chanchaga area was engulfed in flames suspected to
be electricity related.
A shop owner at the 5 room plaza, Munir Umar, said he
lost over Five hundred thousand naira in the inferno and has been left with
nothing safe the clothes on his body.
The councilor of the area, Kabiru Mamman
Gawu, pleaded solvent members of the community to assist the victims of the inferno
with relief.
Just last week, another plaza in Tunga area was gutted by fire
destroying property worth millions of naira. As with the incident today, it was
linked to an electrical fault. No life was lost in both incidents.
Residents of
Minna have wondered what the fire fighting services where doing in both
incidents that hindered their rescue of the two complexes.
Homes, shops and markets often experience power
surges which in turn lead to raging fires that claim lives and property. On
some other occasions, laxity is the culprit.
On the January 5th this year, fire gutted parts of the Kure ‘ultra modern’ market in Minna destroying property worth
millions.
On September 10 2017, the president of Fire Disaster Prevention and Safety Awareness Association of Nigeria, Badanga Ahmed Lamidi, disclosed that fire had destroyed property worth over N6 trillion in five years.
The fire fighting services in Nigeria are very weak with residents having little or no confidence in their abilities.
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