FIRE: 40 shops burnt in Lagos

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Not less than 40 lock-up shops with different auto spare parts worth millions of naira, were destroyed early this morning, May 18, by fire at the Ladipo Auto-Market in Mushin, Lagos State.

The Director of Lagos State Fire Service, Mr Rasak Fadipe, who confirmed this said that the information about the inferno got to his office at 1:20a.m but his fire fighters were unable to access the scene of fire due to a clash that happened in the area during the night.

“We got a call at about 1.20 a.m., but we could not move into the complex at Odushina Street, Papa-Ajao, Mushin, scene of the fire due to a fight going on in the area.

“The Divisional Police Officer at Olosan Police Station, Mushin, led us with his patrol vehicles to the scene before we were able to put out the fire at about 4.46 a.m.

“There were no cases of death or injuries recorded from the inferno.

“My men, however, saw some people with blood all over their bodies, which they suspected were injuries from the fight, “ he said.

Mr Nkire Ezeigbo, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the auto-market, stated that the clash was caused by alleged collection of illegal parking fees by hoodlums from traders on Odushina and Olapeju streets.

“The traders with shops in these streets are the people parking their cars in front of their shops, but some area boys came and started collecting money for parking," Mr Ezeigbo said.

“It was when the traders resisted them (hoodlums) that the fight broke out. The hoodlums destroyed the windscreens of some of the vehicles parked in the two streets and set others ablaze.

“Fire from some of the vehicles set ablaze by the hoodlums may have spread to the complex where shops and goods were burnt

It was recorded on April 20 that more than 50 shops with assorted vehicle spare parts were burnt at the Osoro Section of the same market.

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