As a result of the Christmas break, the shop owners were not
around to put out the fire or salvage any of their goods, hence
resulting in major damages before the fire was eventually put out.
On hearing news of the incident, shop owners who were affected lamented over the huge loss.
One of the victims who owns a big bookshop, Patrick Adedeji, narrated his plight to Channels Television. “I was at the Redemption camp in Lagos when I started seeing strange
calls on my phone. I managed to answer one and I was informed that my
shop was on fire. Some of my people rushed down here but before then,
everything was burnt. I’m at a total loss now as I just stocked the shop
with goods worth millions of naira,” he said.
Another victim, Remi Ibitola who operates a recording studio said:
“Though my office was not burnt but because it was a storey building, it
was from there people were pouring water to put off the fire in the
shops around. “All our equipment were destroyed and flooded. Some of the people who
came around carted away some of my property. I have lost close to 20
million naira worth of property to the fire outbreak, it is quite
unfortunate.”
All those affected have made a passionate appeal to the government as well as spirited Nigerians to come to their aid.
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