It was a harvest of tears, pain and sorrow for tenants and the owner of a building in Umudioka, Awka as fire consumed the building.
The structure located at No. 8 Amangwu Lane, Opposite White House, Umudioka Awka, consists of fifteen rooms and two sitting rooms.
The Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) reports that the visibly shaken Landlord of the building, Ikechukwu Umeh revealed that the unfortunate fire incident started in the early hours of Sunday.
Umeh said he was already out for his business when he started getting calls that his house was on fire.
In tears, he told ABS that the house was his entire life's effort and he lost all his valuable properties and that of his tenants.
On the cause of the fire, he explained that the children of one of his tenants ignited the fire when they were playing with match sticks and lighted clothes in their room, which quickly spread and consumed the entire building.
He valued the property lost in the fire at about thirty million naira.
A tenant in one of the blocks of the building, Chinyere Egburuche remarked that she was indoors watching a movie when her restless child forced her outside for a bath when she discovered the fire.
She said she immediately raised an alarm but nothing could be done before the entire building was razed.
She also lamented that she could not salvage anything, as her valuables, work tools and documents were destroyed.
Lilian Egburuche, who could not hold back emotion and tears, painfully narrated how she lost everything to the fire, just a day after loosing her goods for sale at Onitsha in the hands of thieves.
The father of the kids who were said to have ignited the fire, Obinna Woti said he wasn’t home when the incident happened and expressed his devastation over the incident as another tenant, Eunice Uchenna said they lost everything, including money and items bought for Christmas to the fire in a house they haven’t stayed up to three months.
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