Fire Razes Timber Market, Banana Farm In Rivers

By ANAYO ONUKWUGHA, Port Harcourt

— Dec 28, 2015 2:40 pm | Leave a comment

Goods and property worth millions of naira were lost on Sunday following a mysterious inferno that gutted the popular Diobu Timber Market in Port Harcourt, as well as the Rivers State multimillion naira Banana Farm located in Sogho community, Tai local government area of the state.

LEADERSHIP observed that mostly hit by the Diobu Timber Market fire, which started at about 8:00pm, were residents of Ukwuato and Echue waterfronts in the Mile Two area of Diobu, as they struggle to vacate their houses and save their property from the inferno.
Also, it was observed that the fire at the banana farm, which was one of the landmark projects of the immediate past administration of former Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, destroyed a very large section of the plantation.
An eyewitness told LEADERSHIP that the fire was
suspected was mistakenly ignited by a peasant farmer, who wanted to burn a small portion of his farm, apparently in preparation for the next season, before the harmattan made the fire to spread into the banana farm
Meanwhile, Rivers State Governor, Chief Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike, has ordered for an investigation into the fire incident that gutted the Doctors’ Quarters located inside the Braithwaithe Memorial Specialist Hospital (BMSH), Port Harcourt on Sunday.
The fire which started at about 3:00pm, from the top floor of the two -storey quarters, completely damaged that floor.
Wike who announced the setting up of a Panel of Inquiry to establish the immediate and remote causes of the inferno, also directed that all the five doctors and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health residing at the facility be immediately relocated to Government Guest Houses with their families.
The governor said, “I want to sympathise with the doctors affected by this fire incident. We thank God that no life was lost.
“However, I have directed the Health Commissioner to set up a Panel of Inquiry to find out what led to the fire. If it is as a result of negligence, those involved will be sanctioned. We must endeavour to protect Government property at all times.”

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