Businesswoman Loses N5m She Buried Underground In Lagos

There was a mild drama on Monday in the
Daleko Market, Mushin, Lagos State, as
journalists searched in vain for an unidentified
trader who was said to have lost huge sums of
money buried in her shop to the fire incident
that razed the market on Sunday.
One of the traders, who spoke to Punch, said
the businesswoman was in the habit of
keeping her money in the underground, instead
of a bank. The trader who pleaded anonymity
said:
“The woman usually keeps money in her shop,
and would use her goods to cover it. But we
are not sure if the whole money was destroyed
by the fire. The theory here is that those that
arrived first at the market saw the money and
stole it.”
While some said the money she lost was
between N2m to N5m, others put it higher
than that. But an attempt to speak with the
woman was unsuccessful as she was said to
have gone to Alausa with other market leaders.
No fewer than 120 shops were affected in the
fire that started around 1:00am as a result of
a power surge.
A rice seller, Alhaji Kazeem, said he lost over
one hundred bags of rice to the fire. He said, “I
am ruined; over 100 bags of rice were lost to
this inferno.”
Lagos State has promised to come to the
assistance of the business men and woman in
the market.