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DENNIS NAKU
Published 14 March 2021
Elder Canaan Lucky, 66, is one of the shop owners at Bishop Okoye Street market, in the Mile 3 area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, which went up in flames on Friday, February 19. In this interview with
DENNIS NAKU
Tell
us your name and what you are into?
I am Elder Canaan Lucky and I deal majorly in rice; I sell bags of rice. I also sell beans, salt, oil and other items.
You are one of the victims of the recent fire outbreak at Bishop Okoye Street Market. How did it happen?
We were already in our houses when they called around past eight in the evening that the market was on fire. So, we had to rush down to find out what was happening. By the time we got here, the fire was raging, so we were not able to recover anything.