Kemi Sodeinde, who sells towels and bed sheets in wholesale at the Dosunmu Market, Lagos Island, lost goods worth over N15m in one of the recent fire incidents.
Speaking with The Guardian at the scene of the incident, Sodeinde, who intermittently paused as she spoke, lamented her lost, including revealing that for three days, she could not sleep because all her life investment and savings perished in the incident.
“I cannot really say much, this is my last savings, and all my investment. And I do not know what to do. All the goods in my shop and mini-warehouse are all gone,” she stated.
Sodeinde’s case is even better than some.
Isiak Usman said his boss, who could not speak, probably, as a result of the quantum of losses suffered, disclosed that the Dosunmu Market fire incident consumed all goods stored in the ground floor to the fifth floor of one of the four-storey buildings.
And operators in many of the markets where the…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
