By Joseph Erunke
ABUJA–THE Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, has directed the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, to assess the extent of damage at the Tipper Garage Market fire outbreak, in Gwarimpa, Abuja with a view to immediately providing relief materials to victims.
The minister in a statement, Thursday night by her Special Assistant on Media,Nneka Ikem Anibeze, said she was “deeply saddened by the fire incident that razed the Tipper Garage Market on 3rd Avenue in Gwarimpa area of Abuja in the early hours of Thursday, February 5, 2021.”
Umar-Farouq, who sympathized with the traders especially those who lost their lives in the inferno described the outbreak as tragic.