BENUE: FIRE GUTS POPULAR WADATA MARKET IN MAKURDI - HERSMEN FINGERED

The popular Wadata Market in Makurdi, Benue State has been razed by fire, with goods worth millions of naira destroyed in the fire that started at about 2am Wednesday morning.

Men of the Benue State Fire Service responded swiftly to the fire incidence,and were later joined by the Rapid Reaction Squad led by Sergeant Timothy Okoro from 101 Air force Fire Unit,Makurdi.

At the moment, the fire has been under control, 80% of the market is burnt, with traders counting their loses.

The fire started from the Abbatoir section of the market occupied mostly by herders, preliminary findings shows that herdsmen may have been responsible because of suspicious activities around the market in the last few days and surprisingly the herders are suddenly nowhere to be found even for comments and assessments.

This is coming two days after suspected Fulani herdsmen set fire on Governor Samuel Ortom's 250 hectares rife farm worth over 100 million naira.

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Hmmmm

The federal government can never see them and BOKO haram as terrorist, instead they will call them militant because the are their foot soliders.

They are using it to pay back the governor for like leaving APC.

Governor pls accept my sympathy. We are in a territories government.