Fire outbreak at Baboko Market in Illorin

Goods worth millions of naira were destroyed by a
fire, which gutted the Baboko Market in Illorin, the
Kwara State capital just after midnight on Sunday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that 20 shops
were completely razed by the inferno which lasted
several hours.
The agency gathered that some shop owners left
huge sums of money in their shops when the
incident occurred.
Sources said that the inferno was triggered by a
spark from an electric cable in one of the shops
when electricity was restored.
Some night guards at the market were said to have
noticed smoke billowing from one of the affected
shops and drew the attention of leadership of the
market to it
They alerted fire fighters who came to the scene
and prevented the fire from spreading to other
shops.
The Chairman of Ilorin West Local Government
Council, Alhaji Tajudeen Zulu-Oloje, visited the
scene of the incident on Sunday.
He said that he received a distress call from one of
the market officials around 2am on the fire
outbreak.
He said the local council would do its best to
reconstruct the burnt shops and assist affected
traders.
Zulu-Oloje commended men of the state fire service
for the quick response.
Efforts to speak to the Special Adviser on
Emergency and Relief to State Governor Alhaji Duro
Mohammed, on the incident proved futile.