At least 4000 Igbo traders in Kano rendered 'shopless' by Sabon Gari fire. 90% of market destroyed. Billions lost

Igbo traders count their losses

There is wailing and gnashing of teeth especially among 'Igbos of Northern Nigeria' as midnight fire razed over 4,000 shops at the popular Sabon Gari market in Kano, dominated by Igbo traders. The fire is reported to have destroyed 90% of the market and property worth billions of naira.

The fire, which started between 12:00am of Saturday to 11. 39am, was suspected to have been from arsonist who usually set ablaze Igbo shops to economically sabotage them.

At least 4000 Igbo traders in Kano rendered hopeless

by Sabon Gari fire. 90% of market Destroyed. Billions lost

Efforts by the State Fire Service and other private companies’ firefighters could not save the situation as about 90% of the market was destroyed.

The incident also affected a bank situated within the market and all other stores and shops of the market were burnt.

Smoke clouded Kano horizon as a result of the fire. No life was, however, lost in the outbreak.

Following the inferno at Sabon Gari Market, which is the second in a row in few months Kano State Commissioner of Environment, Alhaji Ali Bukar Makoda, suspended the environmental sanitation exercise to enable firefighters from neighbouring states provide succour.

Shop owners and volunteers thronged the market struggling to stop the fire from advancing to the remaining shops that were yet to be affected by the massive fire incidence.

At least 4000 Igbo traders in Kano rendered shopless

by Sabon Gari fire. 90% of market Destroyed. Billions lost

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