At least 300 shops were reportedly destroyed in the early hours of Monday by a fire incident at the popular Oranya Market in Ibadan North-East Local Government Area of Oyo State.
New Telegraph gathered that the fire outbreak affected retail shops in the market, including gold sellers, furniture dealers, second-hand clothes sellers and others.
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Reacting to the development, the Special Adviser to Governor Seyi Makinde on Fire Reforms and State Chairman of Fire Services, Morof Akinwande, confirmed the incident in a statement.
He said, “Yes, it occurred. That number we cannot ascertain, but what is known is that some shops were destroyed and the fire incident started in the middle of the market with an explosion.
“Whether it’s a gas explosion or other things. And when you have a gas explosion, it would spread, but as I am talking to you, the situation has been under control since 1 am.
“On the number of shops and inventory, that is too early because that’s post-fire outbreak investigation. So, I cannot be accurate about the number of shops that were destroyed. But shops were actually gone.”
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