…Some media outfits had reported that some plazas in Ogbaru Relief, (Main) market gutted by fire on Friday, destroying goods worth millions of Naira
Authorities of Anambra State Markets Amalgamated Traders’ Association, ASMATA has refuted alleged fire outbreak at Ogbaru Relief, (main) market last Friday.
Some media outfits had reported that some plazas in Ogbaru Relief, (Main) market gutted by fire on Friday, destroying goods worth millions of naira.
But President General, Chief Humphrey Anuna described the report as false and unfounded, expressing dismay at the social media fake report, saying such thing never happened in the said market or in any markets in the State.
He said such fake news was capable of triggering someone’s Blood Pressure on hearing the news which could lead to sudden death.
He said, “There was no such fire outbreak in Ogbaru Relief (Main) market, nor in any market in the State. It was a figment of the imagination of the social media writer.
“Such fake news by the social media should be stopped to avoid sudden death because somebody who is having High Blood Pressure, HBP, may die on hearing that his wares in the market have been gutted by fire.
Also speaking, chairman of the said market, Chief Daniel Ogbogu Nwanodi, stated that there was no such inferno nor plazas in the market, explaining that even such structures as displayed in the social media, were not found in the market and its environs.
“We don’t have such plazas in the market nor was any shop in the market on fire last Friday. Unless in other markets not in Ogbaru Relief (Main) market.
“In the market and its environs there is no such plazas, so they know where they got such picture of plazas on fire with thick smoke bellowing from the plazas.
“All I know is that there is no suck inferno in our market on Friday and there will never be,” he affirmed.
