No fewer than four shops with goods worth several millions of naira has been destroyed in a fire disaster at Jamoje Compound, Agbeni, Ibadan.
According to Our correspondent, The inferno started in the early hours of today,(Monday), and efforts by residents and shop owners within the vicinity to put out the fire was to no avail leaving the affected traders lamenting their losses.
The timely arrival of the officials of federal and state fire service prevented the spread of the fire to neigbouring stores and residential buildings.
A resident Mr kehinde Ayinla and a trader who identified his name as Mr Musa said they could not withstand the raging fire adding that the cause of the fire was yet known.
The Principal Fire Superintendent, Gbagi Fire Station, Mr Jimoh Musibau said his team responded to the distress calls put to them, saying four shops in the affected building had already been engulfed in fire before their arrival.
Fire service men at work, curtailing the Spread of the fire outbreak
Also an Assistant Superintendent Corps, of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps said adequate security had been put in place to prevent hoodlums from looting shops in the area.
It was gathered that the scavengers took advantage of the unfortunate incident by picking waste and other useful valuables, Burnt cash were also displayed while the affected traders appealed to government to come to their aid.
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