Following the inferno at the Mgbuka Obosi market last Friday, a combined team of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA and the State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, have visited the market to assess the level of damage caused by the fire incident.
The team also said that the visit was to enable both identify the affected persons and know the best intervention approach to be adopted.
The team on arrival at the scene was briefed on the disaster that claimed one life, injured six persons and affected over three hundred shops.
In his speech, the Senior Search and Rescue Officer, NEMA, Mr. Kingsley Okolo and the representative of the Executive Secretary of SEMA, Barrister Chukwudi Onyejekwe, consoled the affected persons and assured them of the federal and state governments’ readiness to assist them.
In their various remarks, the Chairman of the market, Mr. Samuel Ezeobodo and the leader of Igwebuike arm of the Market, Mr. Chima Ozumba, commended NEMA and SEMA, for visiting the scene of the incident and attested that men of the Anambra State Fire Service did their best to extinguish the fire, though shops loaded with goods were lost to the inferno.
Some of the victims, including Messrs Uchenna Okoli and Anayo Arungwo, pleaded for assistance, and urged the people to see their plight as a collective responsibility.
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