An early morning fire Sunday ravaged and
destroyed 32 out of 72 shops worth N500m
located at St James Church Cathedral
Shopping complex, Agbokojo Road, Ogunpa,
Ibadan, Oyo state. According to reports, the fire started from one of the single storey shopping complexes, around 2.00 a.m allegedly from an electrical spark from an unidentifiable shop.
Among the affected structures were shops,
offices and warehouses with full stock of
agricultural produce, chemicals, sprayers,
provisions, building materials, mobile phones
accessories, shoe materials, hair extensions
(popularly referred to as weave-ons) and store
of a plywood supplier on the ground floor of
the complex.
According to Drinosblog source, one of the
night security guards and few neighbours
living around the area noticed heavy smoke
oozing out from the roof of the shops, and
they attempted to put it out but when they realised that it was beyond human control, they informed the Fire Service station at Molete, Ibadan.
Intervention, however, did not come on time,
leading to the heavy losses by the shop owners.
Representatives of the state government,
Secretary to the Oyo State Government and
the Special Adviser to Governor Abiola Ajimobi
on security matters, Olalekan Alli and Segun
Bolarinwa, visited the scene Sunday afternoon
to ascertain the level of destruction first hand.
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