Inferno: Fire Destroys Benue Biggest Market - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
June 19, 2019
A raging inferno has consumed a section of the mainmarket in Markurdi, Benue State with about many shops and goods worth millionsof naira destroyed.
Benue government spokesperson, Terver Akase, saidthe fire only touched a section of the market along George Akume Road at about6:30 p.m. The market, containing row of lock-up shops, was built by formerGovernor Gabriel Suswam to unclog the Makurdi city centre and easy trading.
The market served as a temporary shelter for victimsof the devastating flood in 2017 and residents who fled their villages at theheight of violence by herdsmen between late 2017 and early 2018.