Merchants on the Aleshinloye Market in Ibadan have expressed displeasure over the dearth of a purposeful fireplace station on the market of about 2,000 retailers.
The merchants expressed their discontentment whereas talking with the Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan on Wednesday following Tuesday’s fireplace incident.
NAN experiences the incident affected components of the market, destroying items value thousands and thousands of naira.
The affected merchants, largely sellers in plastic supplies, attributed the huge destruction to the dearth of a purposeful fireplace station throughout the market premises.
A dealer, Mr Lukman Balogun, alleged that the workplace of the Oyo State Hearth Service throughout the market was now being utilized by the merchants to retailer their wares.
“When the fireplace began round 9.00 p.m. on Tuesday, we known as on the Oyo State Hearth Service males on the station out there, however they instructed us they didn’t have tools and needed to name their headquarters.
“Earlier than the headquarters and different fireplace companies may arrive, the injury had change into large.
“There are about 2,000 retailers on this market, and it’s disheartening that there isn’t a purposeful fireplace station out there.
“Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State ought to please present a purposeful fireplace station at this market to stop a future incidence,” he stated.
One other sufferer, Mr AbdulLateef Atobatele, described the scenario of the market’s fireplace station not having water and car as unlucky.
Atobatele stated if the fireplace station had been purposeful, the scenario would have been introduced below management earlier than it escalated.
In the meantime, the Chairman of the Oyo State Hearth Providers Company, Dr Moroof Akinwande, sympathised with the victims of the fireplace incident.
Akinwande stated the company’s officers on the market station acquired a misery name and instantly contacted the headquarters.
Responding to the nonavailability of purposeful firefighting vans, Akinwande stated the vans couldn’t have been all over the place.
“Hoodlums had attacked and destroyed no fewer than 4 of our firefighting vans inside an area of 1 yr as a result of their feelings at any time when fireplace incidents happen.
“If not for the presence of safety brokers right here now, you’d have seen individuals attacking and destroying our tools, and that is actually depleting our tools,” he stated.
