Posted on: 05:36 Tue, 26 Jan 2016



No fewer than 700 make-shift shops at the
popular Station Food Stuff Market in Kaduna
have been burnt down in an early morning
inferno. The fire incident, which was attributed to
a power surge, occurred at about 12 midnight
when the traders had retired from the day’s
business.

An eyewitness told Channels Television that two
people, who were sleeping inside one of the
shops, also lost their lives in the fire while goods
worth millions of Naira were completely
destroyed.

According to reports efforts by the State Fire
Service could not save the situation, as the fire
razed all the shops and destroyed food items.

Only zinc and iron protectors in some shops
were the only things in sight at the market, as
some owners of the shops gathered, with agony
on their faces.

The make-shift shops were made with wood, zinc
and other materials that fire can easily burn.

One of the traders, whose shop was affected,
told Channels Television’s correspondent that the
fire incident could have been averted if the
previous government had listened to their
demand for permanent blocks of shops to be
constructed in the market, instead of the make-
shift shops.

“The make-shift shop can easily be gutted by
fire,” he said.