An early morning fire on Sunday engulfed the popular Kugbo furniture and building material market in Abuja destroying goods worth millions of naira.
No immediate cause has been given for the outbreak, but some witnesses suggested it may have been a result of an electrical failure.
According to them, operatives of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) only arrived the scene about three hours after the fire had started.
They, therefore, called on the government to set up a fire service point in the market to forestall future outbreaks.
There have been cases of fire outbreak in the market in the past with little or no effort by the FCT administration to prevent a recurrence.
Recalled a similar incident occurred in January 2020 when about 37 shops were gutted by fire also destroying goods worth millions of Naira.
