Properties worth millions of naira were destroyed in a fire outbreak at the Nupe line section of Igbudu market in Warri, Delta State. According to our source , we learned that the fire began around noon on Wednesday and was extinguished by officials from the Delta State Fire Service and the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) fire department.
Traders at the market were seen crying and packing rubble from their burnt shops. The Etsu-Nupe of Warri and its environs, Zuberu Mohammed Tajudeen, whose storey building is close to the compound where the fire started, confirmed the incident in an interview with Daily Post.
Tajudeen appealed to the Delta State Government to establish a fire service substation in the Igbudu market to aid traders during fire outbreaks. He also urged the government to provide financial support to the affected traders to cushion their losses.
“We don’t know how the fire started. We only perceived the smell of burning but we could not trace the exact thing that was burning. All we saw later was fire. The fire finished the building close to my building,” Tajudeen said. “When the fire was burning, I was afraid. It took the intervention of the fire service of the Delta State Government with that of SPDC to stop it. The Urhobos in Igbudu No. 2 and the Hausa boys in Hausa Quarters also helped us a great deal. They helped to quench the fire.”
“I thank God because my building was spared. I don’t have any other thing. This is the only place where I get my daily bread from. I am happy,” he added.