An early morning fire yesterday razed a two-story warehouse in Kano’s commodity market, popularly known as Kasuwan Singer.
The cause of the incident could not be determined at the time of filing this report, but traders in the building attributed it to an electrical spark.
Abdulkarim Ibrahim, an accountant who works in the Mumza House warehouse, said the fire destroyed goods worth over N100 million.
He said the warehouse was filled with goods such as biscuits and chewing gum.
Another trader, Muhammad Sani Danlami, whose shop is along a corridor upstairs, said the fire started from upstairs and it was a result of an electrical spark.
He said he lost everything in his shop as he could not rescue anything from the shop.
“The fire started from upstairs. It razed the warehouse completely. Unfortunately, it was just last week that five trailers of goods were offloaded in the warehouse,” Danlami said.
Confirming the incident, the spokesperson, Kano State Fire Service, Saminu Yusif, said it got a distress call about the fire outbreak and quickly deployed its men to the scene.
“We received a distress call on Tuesday morning at about 09:00 am from one Abubakar Muhammad. Upon receiving the call, we deployed our men to the scene of the incident where it was discovered that a storey building was engulfed by fire.
“The fire razed the goods in the upstairs part of the warehouse. But we were able to control the fire from escalating to other neighbourhood shops.”
No life was lost nor injury recorded.
The Vice Chairman of the singer market, Bashir Yusuf commended the prompt response of the fire service, neighbours and good samaritans which prevented the fire from spreading to other nearby shops in the market.