properties worth millions destroyed by fire

    It was a tragic Christmas for some shop owners as fire destroyed property and goods worth millions on Monday, along the popular Oba Adesida Road in Ondo state.
   Eye-witnesses said the fire, which lasted for over two hours started from one of the shops at about 1:00 pm and later spread to other shops nearby. As a result of the Christmas break, the shop owners were not around to put out the fire or salvage any of their goods, hence resulting in major damages before the fire was eventually put out. On hearing news of the incident, shop owners who were affected lamented over the huge loss. One of the victims who owns a big bookshop, Patrick Adedeji, narrated his plight to Channels Television.
    “I was at the Redemption camp in Lagos when I started seeing strange calls on my phone. I managed to answer one and I was informed that my shop was on fire. Some of my people rushed down here but before then, everything was burnt. I’m at a total loss now as I just stocked the shop with goods worth millions of naira,” he said.
    Another victim, Remi Ibitola who operates a recording studio said: “Though my office was not burnt but because it was a storey building, it was from there people were pouring water to put off the fire in the shops around. “All our equipment were destroyed and flooded. Some of the people who came around carted away some of my property. I have lost close to 20 million naira worth of property to the fire outbreak, it is quite unfortunate.” All those affected have made a passionate appeal to the government as well as spirited Nigerians to come to their aid.