Merchants Rely Losses As Hearth Destroys Ebonyi Market

Hearth has razed down a piece of Eke Market, a significant market in Afikpo city, Afikpo North native authorities of Ebonyi State.

The inferno which reportedly occurred on Tuesday night destroyed a number of retailers and items price tens of millions of naira. The reason for the fireplace in response to Vanguard was not but identified. In the meantime, merchants have been counting their losses.

SaharaReporters gathered that the Ebonyi State Hearth Service Unit in Afikpo couldn’t mobilise to place out the raging hearth as a result of its gear was reportedly not useful.

The Government Chairman of Afikpo North Native Authorities Space, Oby Oko Enyim arrived on the scene of the incident at about 6:35 am on Wednesday.

Enyim sympathised with the victims and expressed confidence that there was hope for them regardless of the tragedy.

Enyim who was taken across the scene of the fireplace catastrophe by the Chairman of Afikpo Market Merchants Affiliation, AMATA, Omezue Johnson Inya Oka described the incident as pathetic.

In the meantime, Lilian Ngozi Eziuloh, member representing Afikpo North East Constituency, Ebonyi State Home of Meeting additionally sympathised with the victims of the fireplace outbreak.

“I sympathise with victims of Afikpo hearth outbreak that passed off at Eke Market Motor Park at about 10 pm on twelfth July 2022. With a honest coronary heart crammed with sympathy and empathy figuring out full nicely the results of this catastrophe on these immediately affected, I pray you shall recuperate all you have got misplaced in Jesus’ title Amen.

“To Afikpo youths who volunteered to quench the fireplace amidst the depth and absence of Hearth service on the time they had been most wanted, God will reward you right here on Earth and in Heaven on your contribution in communal and selfless service to avoid wasting humanity,” she stated.