By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu
The state executive of the National Union Market Traders Employers of Nigeria (NUMTEN), Anambra State Council, has sympathized with the victims of Ifejika Market, Onitsha inferno which reportedly destroyed goods worth over 20 billion Naira.
In a release signed by the Chairman of NUMTEN, Anambra State Council, Comrade Nnamsom Nwafor-Orizu, and made available to newsmen in Onitsha, the Chairman enjoined all the victims of the fire outbreak to take solace in the fact that no life was lost in the incident, stating that the association, which, he said, was the umbrella body of all traders in Nigeria, would liaise with Anambra State to ensure that nothing of such happened again, adding that the plights of the victims would be adequately ameliorated and effects of the combustion cushioned.
The NUMTEN boss noted that all the state executive members of the Council were working round the clock to proffer lasting solutions to the incessant fire outbreaks bedeviling traders in Anambra State, especially in the Onitsha Metropolis; adding that Governor Soludo was working hard in giving all the major and recognised markets in the state a face-lift and needed to be supported.
‘On behalf of the members of NUMTEN Anambra State Council, I sympathize with the victims, especially the Vice Chairman of NUMTEN, Anambra State Council, Comrade John Okwudili Agwuedu. We share in their sad moments and grief. It is indeed a sad commentary,’ he concluded.
