Not fewer than 25 shops and goods worth millions of Naira were destroyed by a fire outbreak in the early hours of Wednesday at the Gombe Main Market. Chairman of the Market Traders’ Association, Alhaji Uba Abdullahi who spoke to news men at the market attributed the inferno to electrical fault from one of the shops when electricity supply was restored to the market. The chairman, therefore, called on the marketers to always switch off their electrical appliances after closing from the market to avoid such unfortunate incidents. “We are lacking proper street layout in the market which made it difficult to get easy access to the shops during an emergency like a fire outbreak. As such, because of lack of proper planning, people were watching helplessly while their shops were being razed down by the fire,” he said.

Source: Nigerian Tribune June 19, 2019 19:18 UTC