Akanbi makes case for traders of Ibadan spare parts market fire, writes NEMA for relief materials, cash support

Former Senator Adesoji Akanbi has expressed the need for urgent help with relief building materials and cash support for the victims of the fire disaster at Araromi Auto Spare Parts Market, Agodi-Gate, Ibadan to ease the rebuilding of their wrecked businesses and get back on their feet without hassles.

Akanbi, who represented Oyo South Senatorial District between 2015 – 2019 stated this in a letter addressed to the Director- General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), titled ‘REQUEST FOR URGENT SUPPORT FOR ARAROMI AUTO SPARE PARTS MARKET, AGODI-GATE, IBADAN, OYO STATE’.

The popular auto spare parts market had encountered an inferno on Friday, April 2nd 2021 which decimated the market place, resulting in loss of goods and properties estimated to be over a billion naira.

According to the APC chieftain, owing to this unfortunate incident, many business owners have been rendered impoverished due to the losses they suffered from the fire that annihilated their source of livelihood as businesses and investments built for decades all got wiped out.

The letter reads, “I and few other individuals have supported them in our little way of salvaging the situation but this cannot be compared to the amount of help needed to help the humanitarian situation created by the unfortunate circumstance. On my part, I donated building materials which included 600 bags of cement and 400 pieces of roofing sheets; but more needs to be done. Hence, my appeal and call for your intervention.

“Historically, the market is one of the biggest markets in Southwest Nigeria when it comes to auto spare parts dealing. It, therefore, calls for urgent attention for the market and marketers to immediately receive relief building materials and cash support to ease the rebuilding of their wrecked businesses and get back on their feet without hassles.

“It is on this note that I make a passionate appeal and request to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) as the lawmaker who represented Oyo South Senatorial District (where the market is domiciled) in the 8th National Assembly and as the Okanlomo of Ibadan Land (rare son of Ibadan Land) that relief materials be made available as soon as possible”.