PHOTOS: Oyo's Akesan Market Razed By Fire, Multi-million Valuables Destroyed |OGBOMOSO INFO|

Goods and valuables worth Millions of Naira were destroyed as the popular Akesan Market in Oyo was engulfed by early morning inferno.

The inferno according to a reliable source started around 12:am on sunday morning

Traders were seen wailing and weeping profusely as all efforts to quench the fire did not yield positive response it was learnt that the firefighters from Oyo could not move to the scene of the incident because their equipment was not in good shape.

Unfortunately, the Fire Service based in Oyo and just less than 20 metres to the Market could not mobilise to stop the raging fire.
This development forced angry youths to attack the fire station and destroyed their car.The Service said its equipment was not functioning.

Fire fighters then had to be mobilised from Ogbomoso City, several kilometres away, after a massive damage.
Some of the witnesses said the cause of the fire is not known yet.

Some of the traders calls for help as they lament that most of them borrowed loan from Microfinance banks and need to repay

Alade, a community leader who was also at the scene lament the disaster and urge the government is to reconstruct the market and support the traders with no interest loan

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