The motorcycle section and part of the Sokoto central market have been gutted by fire in the early hours of Monday, March 18.
Though property worth Millions were lost to the early Morning Fire, no life was lost to the incident.
The cause of the fire incident has not been officially disclosed sources told The Nation that it began from a solid waste dump.
The chairman of the Motorcycles Marketers Association, Sokoto, Garba Mohammed,saidd the number of motorcycles destroyed could not be ascertained.
He said: “We cannot specify the actual figure destroyed as a result of the incident which left many people in total loss of their goods and sites to the fire which started around 6 am today(Monday).
“A lot of them could not arrive at the scene early enough for possible rescue of their motorcycles and other items.”
Mohammed also confirmed the involvement of federal and state fire service officials actively combatting the fire, noting that extinguishing it might be a prolonged effort.
He appealed to the state government for aid to those who suffered property losses in the inferno.
The Sokoto central market had experienced a series of fire tragedies in over a decade that wreaked havoc on the state’s commercial and economic activities with attendant losses of goods.
