Many merchants are mentioned to have misplaced their items and properties value tens of millions of naira in a fireplace catastrophe that destroyed 22 outlets at Gwarzo market, headquarters of Gwarzo Native Authorities Space of Kano State.
The inferno that occurred on Monday had left the victims in mourning as a lot of them are mentioned to have misplaced tens of millions of naira within the catastrophe.
The Zonal Data Officer of Gwarzo Native Authorities Space, Rabiu Khalil, confirmed the incident in an announcement, a duplicate of which was made accessible to PUNCH Metro on Tuesday.
“The fireplace began at midnight final Sunday and it took state firefighters till Monday morning to lastly extinguish it,” the assertion mentioned.
Khalil defined that dozens of retailers had been fully razed by the inferno, whereas properties value tens of millions of naira had been destroyed, however there was no harm or lack of life within the incident.
One of many victims, Dayyabu Lawan Bala, mentioned he misplaced items value over N5 million because of the fireplace.
He referred to as on the federal government and different rich people to return to their help and alleviate their struggling.
“I misplaced items value N5m in my store to this unlucky fireplace incident. I attraction to the state authorities to return to our rescue,” he mentioned.
The member representing Gwarzo Federal Constituency within the Home of Representatives, Abdulahi Muazu Babangandu, had paid a sympathy go to to the affected merchants the place he donated the sum of N500,000 to the victims after visiting the scene.
When contacted, the Kano State Fireplace Service Public Relations Officer, Saminu Abdullahi, additionally confirmed the incident, saying a complete of twenty-two outlets had been destroyed within the inferno.
Nevertheless, he defined that of the 22 shops, two had been beneath development.
“The variety of affected outlets was 22, two of which had not but been accomplished,” Abdullahi mentioned.
