Fire Destroys Goods Worth Millions in Kogi GSM Village

Goods worth millions of Naira were destroyed yesterday when the popular GSM village in in Cantonment Lokoja  the state capital was engulfed with fire.

According to the chairman of the Traders Association, Hassan Garba, the cause of the fire that razed about 26 shops and destroyed goods worth millions of Naira could not be ascertained as of the time of the incident.

Garba added that many of the owners of shops that were affected just stocked their shops with new goods and appealed to the state government to come to their aid financially.

He also lamented the inability of the Kogi State Fire Service to come to their rescue immediately the fire started at the early hour of Tuesday due to lack of water which made them to resort into self help.

“Most of the owners of the shops affected by the fire just bought goods into their respective shops. The shops that were affected included that jewelry sellers, textile materials, among others. Five million, six hundred thousand was the worth of jewelries that got burnt,” he said.

“The fire started in early hours of Tuesday, and we immediately called on the Kogi State Fire Service, but unfortunately, they said they do not have water to quench the fire, so we have to resort to self-help by putting out the fire ourselves, or else, the loss would have been more than this.” he lamented.

Some of the people whose shops were razed down by the inferno lamented and call on the state government to come to their aid.

“All my goods have been consumed by fire and the remaining ones are useless, we are calling on the state government to come to our aide so that we can survive.”  Alhaji Yusuf Momoh one of  the victims said.