Rivers: Amaechi, Cole visit fruit garden market, offer financial assistance to fire victims

Minister of Transportation and Former Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has assured traders at the popular fruit garden market in D-line who lost their goods and shops to a late night inferno of financial assistance.

Speaking to the traders at the scene of the incident in Port Harcourt on Friday, Amaechi said,

” What we will do is to assist you. You should reach the State chairman of the party (APC) and let us know what level of assistance we can give to you.

” We will try and give some level of assistance to help you.So let’s know what the issues are so that we can assist”, he said.

Also addressing the victims of the fire, a frontline governorship aspirant of APC, Tonye Dele Cole said,

” Your Chairman will take record of the number of stores affected by the fire to enable us compensate everybody that lost their goods.

“So let us know how much you have lost and the number of persons affected by the fire.For now, we know you need money to survive we would give some amount of money to your Chairman for all of you”, he said.

Stalls and commodities worth several millions were destroyed by inferno last night at the fruit garden market.

Traders who spoke with newsmen condemned the inability of the state owned fire service to extinguish the inferno despite having their office few kilometres away.

They frowned at the deplorable state of the fire service, which has rendered the fire station moribund.