Tejuosho fire renders 1,200 artisans jobless

About 1,200 artisans who specialise in assorted fabric making have been rendered jobless by the inferno in Tejuosho Market on Tuesday.

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in a post disaster loss and needs assessment made available to SlyeNews by the Lagos Coordinator, Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed that over 1,600 industrial, weeping and straight sewing machines were lost in a mid afternoon fire disaster that struck the popular Tejuoso Market yesterday.

Although, the cause of the inferno cannot be confirmed yet, but rumoures have that it was caused by someone trying to fill up a working generator which caught fire and could not be brought under control.

However, the Chairman of the Traders, Comrade Godwill Okorie contested this saying the way the fire started and spread the whole market within minutes makes him disputes the general rumour.

The Chairman appeals to loan facilitators to kindly consider the calamities and grant them more loans to enable start off and redeem all the loans.

While consoling the traders, the Director General of NEMA, Alhaji Mustapha Habib Ahmed represented by Ibrahim Farinloye urged them not to see the situation as a temporary set back but as a God trial that would bring greater success.

The assessment revealed that about 150 lock-up shops with at least registered 8 traders are using each shops.