Goods worth millions of naira destroyed as fire razes Enugu market
About 15 shops and goods worth millions of naira were completely razed down on Monday night, at Agbani Road, Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State.
The affected shops were located at the popular Afor Awkunanaw Market, also known as Garriki Market.
Eyewitnesses said that a shopping plaza that housed electrical shops, hair salons, phone accessories, a cafeteria, and motor/motorcycle parts, caught fire at about 11 pm that Monday night.
One of the witnesses, who gave his name as Onyebuchi Omerie, said the entire building would have been completely razed but for the intervention of residents who raced to the area on time to help check its spread.
They said though no one could actually state how the fire started, some some sourced said that someone burnt refuse in the gutter which spread to the building.
It was also said that the fire was caused by a Suya seller who probably did not put out the fire from his oven well.
He said that he lived close by and when he perceived the smell coming from the stalls, he thought that it was his generator that was producing the smoke only the discover that it was the shops that caught fire.
“I live nearby. When I perceived the smell in the night around ten or eleven in the night, I thought it was my generator but when I came out to find out, I saw the shops in flame,” the resident said.
He also said that when the Fire Service personnel came, they could not put out the fire because they lacked enough water.
“It was people that started bringing water from everywhere that were able to contain the fire from consuming the entire building,” he also said.
When reporters arrived the scene of the incident, which was directly opposite Akwuke Junction, Agbani Road, sympathisers were busy trying to recover some goods from the wreckage while some others looked on aghast at the gory incident.
“What a tragedy that people should lose their source of livelihood this January and in this economic hardship,” a female sympathiser lamented.
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