By Bisola Adeyemo
Properties worth over two hundred million Naira (N200M) have been destroyed as fire incident ravaged popular Bodija plank market in Ibadan in Oyo state.
The plank sellers at the market have, however, disclosed to Daily Post that they lost over two hundred million naira as a result of the incident, adding that about eighteen shops and forty people were affected.
Chairman of Zone 7 where the incident occurred, Alhaji Daud Owoyemi Ogunrin said that no one could explain the cause of the incident.
Ogunrin said, “I was informed some minutes after 8 pm yesterday that our shops were on fire. We came here and everything have been destroyed.
“We cannot say the cause of the incident, but eighteen shops have been destroyed. We have more than forty people who have property here.
“We are begging God to replenish us. We are calling on well-spirited Nigerians and the government to assist us. We do not know where to start.”
Chairman of Ibadan Plank Sellers Association, Elder Gbenga Gbaroye who appealed to the government to support the victims.
He said, “We call on Oyo State government to assist us because our work needs money. Our work do not require any other thing apart from money.
“Over one hundred million naira have been lost here.”
