{"id":74550,"date":"2014-12-16T14:30:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T14:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=74550"},"modified":"2014-12-16T15:04:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T15:04:08","slug":"fire-guts-tamale-aboabo-grains-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/12\/fire-guts-tamale-aboabo-grains-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire guts Tamale Aboabo grains market"},"content":{"rendered":"
Fire on Tuesday dawn gutted a part of the Tamale Aboabo grains market and destroyed foodstuff worth thousands of cedis.<\/p>\n
Five large stores were destroyed and several bags of cereals comprising maize, rice, guinea corn, sorghum, millet and groundnuts completely got burnt.<\/p>\n
Over five hundred market women trading at the market have being affected.
\nSome of them told Citi News they collected loans from micro finance institutions to expand their businesses.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”z37AlwHCb6XrcozG1tXZ6a8rqtp3vND4″]They made a passionate appeal to government to alleviate their plight.<\/p>\n
Personnel from the Ghana Police Service and the Ghana National Fire Service are conducting investigations to establish the cause of the inferno.<\/p>\n
The Tamale Aboabo grains market is one of the major sources of the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly\u2019s Internally Generated Fund Mobilization.<\/p>\n
Muslim Clergy led by the Northern Regional Chief Imam Alhaji Abdul Salam Abubakari visited the scene and consoled the victims.<\/p>\n
The Spokesperson, Alhaji Abdullah Hindu told Citi News<\/strong> the Muslim Clergy were touched by the inferno, hence the rapid response.<\/p>\n