Traders raise concern over incessant fire outbreaks in Ibadan

The frequency of fire outbreaks in Ibadan, Oyo State is becoming a source of worry.

Track News reports that in no long period, residents, especially traders have lost fortunes to strange fire outbreaks.

The latest is the fire incident at the popular Araromi spare parts market in Ibadan, which has left victims in shock.

A section of the market was on Saturday, 14th January, 2023, gutted by fire.

This is not the first time a section of the market will experience a fire incident.

According to residents, it has become a regular occurrence.

In the latest incident, some of the items lost included machines, spare parts and household items.

Track News correspondent who visited the market on Monday gathered that about thirty shops were affected, with property worth over N50m estimated to have been destroyed.

Apart from this incident, in April 2021, a section of Araromi market was gutted by fire.

Also, traders had their property gutted by fire in December 2022 at a market in Apata area of Ibadan. The incident occurred after a fully loaded tanker lost control in the Apata area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on 15th December, 2022.

In another incident, no fewer than ten (10) people sustained various degrees of injuries after a petrol tanker lost control and burs into flames in Ogbomoso on January 1st this year