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A federal lawmaker
has called on the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), to
urgently come to the aid of the victims of Uselu market fire disaster,
whose goods worth millions of naira were razed down over the weekend.

Ifaluyi Isibor, the
member representing Ikpoba/Okha federal constituency, made this appeal
while presenting a cash donation of N15, 000 each to the 28 victims of
the disaster when he carried out an on-the-spot assessment of damages
in the market.

Mr. Isibor’s visit,
which was almost marred by heavy down said, “I came to Benin basically
to sympathize with my sisters and mothers and to assure them that
government will not forget them. Before I left Abuja, I have prepared a
letter addressed to the National Emergency Management Agency in Abuja,
directing them to come to the aid of the victims with a view of
bringing relief to affected traders.”

He said his
observation was that about 95 per cent of fire disasters in markets are
traceable to electrical problems. He therefore appealed “to the
government that is in-charge of the management of the markets to ensure
that accredited technicians are usually in charge of markets to enable
they monitor electrical connections. Once that is done our people will
be happy for it,” he said.

In the early hours of last Friday, fire gutted goods worth millions
of naira at the Uselu market, in Egor local government. This happened
just as the state government was finalizing arrangement to start
rebuilding the Agbado market destroyed by fire on November 5 last year.