Again, shops and shanties razed as fire guts plank market in Ebute Metta [PHOTOS]

The raging inferno which on Monday, July 18, 2022, gutted the popular Okobaba Plank Market destroyed several shops and shanties at Kadara by Osholake within Kadara market streets

Some of the residents refused to speak about the cause of the fire incident as many scurried around to save their properties while miscreants took advantage of the incident to loot.

Another fire incident in the Ebute Metta area of Lagos has destroyed properties worth millions of Naira.

Men of the fire service have been drafted to the area to put the situation under control.

This is not the first or second time residents and shop owners around the Okobaba area of Ebute Metta would lose their properties to fire incidents.

In November 2019, a fire incident razed down many buildings at the plank market.

The inferno, which reportedly started from one building extended to five other buildings at Okobaba Plank Market.

In January 2022, many shanties at Okobaba sawmill were reduced to ashes following a fire outbreak from one of the wooden buildings.