Main Market Fire Disaster: CLO Sympathies with victims, calls for adequate compensation
By Julie Sylvia
Civil Liberties Organization Anambra State has sympathies and identifies with traders at Main Market who lost their monies and goods during a horrendous fire inferno that ravaged a two-story building section of the market in which traders lost millions of naira.
In a press statement issued to the news by Evangelist Comrades Vincent Ezekwueme and Chidi Mba chairman and secretary respectively tagged “when one suffers directly all of us suffer indirectly” lamented that just a few months after the Kano street market fire disaster.
”This one happened during this unprecedented economic hardship necessitated by the naira redesign, high cost of petroleum products, hyperinflation and insecurity.
”We commend the prompt visit to the scene by the state deputy governor, but the Anambra government should take a step further by payment of adequate compensation to the victims, provision of urgent palliatives measures and renovating the dilapidated building.
“We equally solicit support and help from Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) legislators both Federal and state representing the affected area and public-spirited individuals to help in ameliorating the sufferings, plights and predicament of the victims.
“Anambra state government should reactive State Fire Service to make it more functional and alive to her responsibilities. They should also constitute a Committee made of men and women of impeccable integrity to unravel circumstances surrounding incessant fire disasters in our markets in other to forestall future occurrences.
”We equally thank and glorify God that no life was lost, may such a despicable incident never happen in the state again CLO reiterated.
