Isale ebutte11/30/2023 “This is an omission that needs to be addressed,” he said.Ĭorroborating Lamidi, he reiterated that safety measures should be a consistent practise enforced on traders. He worried that power surge has been a recurrent issue of cases of fire outbreaks yet nothing has been done to mitigate it. The Director-General Lagos State Safety Commission, Dr Dickson Hakeem faulted the power generation companies for not diligently checkmating the level of voltage they give to consumers. This would help curb this menace to a very large extent.” There should be a sustainable structure to drive this. ![]() We need to come up with the deployment of a task force to ensure that traders comply to fire prevention. They defile orders and have even invented attachments within the markets, making it difficult for fire trucks to access fire outbreaks. He noted that the deployment of a task force to monitor compliance should be adopted. According to him, a lot of enlightenment programmes are being done for traders but compliance has remained an issue which can be as a result of trader’s ignorance. ![]() He noted that many building primarily built for residential purposes are being converted to commercial activities without changing some service requirement of such buildings.įor FDPSAAN Boss, Lamidi, combating market fire has gone beyond sensitising traders on fire prevention but rather the enforcement of the preventive measures should be applied. The need to consider man-made disasters should be factored in at the design stage such as ventilation, the spacing between buildings, designated area for storage of combustible and inflammable materials, firewalls and roofs, electrical wiring in conduits among others, explained Mr Kunle Awobodu, President, Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB). Tackling market fire can be traced down to the design stage of market construction. Therefore, securing the local investment they make would galvanise and guarantee confidence from the foreign investors we seek” he added. “We must learn to secure our economy and particularly understand that traders are the heartbeat and engine of the economic life of every society. It is our candid opinion that these incidents are preventable to avoid any being rendered jobless and employment sources being cut short, even from many apprentices who are serving under their masters with the hope of being settled and become great employers of labour. “We would never keep quiet until an urgent inquiry is conducted to underscore the immediate and remote causes of these unabated shameful incidents in our markets in the country. He said the incidences have become to many which perhaps would have been averted if adequate actions were taken to forestall like occurrences. Reacting to frequent occurrences in market areas, the President of the National Association of Nigerian Traders( NANTs), Ken Ukaoha said it has not only made its members jobless but has also affected apprentices seeking to be settled soon. However, only a few patients and understanding customers would want to go through such processes to buy from you. When they make their choices, I rush to bring it from where I managed to pack them. Again, I have samples of some of my wares on my phone which I show to customers. Now, I come to the market daily and start roaming about worth clothes in my hands looking for customers to sell to. “That comfort you get having your shop is no longer felt. He gets wares from his friends to sell at his makeshift shop and then return the principal value of the goods after realising a marginal profit on the items.įor Collins Ejike, he has resorted to hawking his wares he managed to salvage from the inferno around the market, pending when he can financial secure a shop. They depend on the benevolence of their fellow traders and friends and also anticipate compensation from the government.įor instance, a victim of the Balogun Market fire, Christian Mgbeji who has been able to construct a makeshift shop can only thank his friends for their assistance thus far. Notwithstanding the devastating effect, some traders brave the odds to start afresh. ![]() That is why most traders do not regard these insurers.” Some of us have been victims of such, they are not reliable. This position was buttressed by Ejike, a victim of the Balogun Market fire outbreak, Collins Ejike who said “it is not that we do not know the benefits of insurance but the problem we are having is the sincerity of these insurance companies to pay when the need arises. This could be attributed to a lack of understanding of the importance of insurance for their business traders’ biases on the integrity of the insurers to pay claims when risk arises. Regrettably, most traders do not have any form of insurance coverage for their businesses.
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