Saraki commiserates with victims of Kano inferno

 

Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki has commiser­ated with victims of yesterday’s fire disaster that ravaged the popu­lar Abubakar Rimi market in Kano.

 

Saraki, in a statement by his Spe­cial Adviser (Media and Publicity), Yusuph Olaniyonu in Abuja, la­mented the continuous occurrenc­es of fire disasters in markets across the country and urged the manage­ments of markets to always employ all modern means of preventing and combating fire disasters to ensure traders are not subjected to this harrowing loss.

 

The popular Sabon-Gari market in Kano, was in the early hours of Saturday hit by a fire incident that led to the destruction of goods and properties worth millions of Naira.

 

Saraki said: “The continuous loss of merchandise and proper­ties in many commodity markets in the country and Kano in par­ticular to fire disasters has reached a worrisome level that requires urgent measures to combat the trend.

 

“These fire incidents had de­prived our hard working and de­termined traders the means of livelihood and survival and these are expectedly breadwinners of their families. In addition, these losses represent the depletion of national wealth as most of the vic­tims constitute a significant chunk of entrepreneurial class who are supposedly great contributors to the na-tion’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).