*2 victims for burial

By Tony Edike

ENUGU-ABOUT 50 families affected by the fire outbreak that occurred at the Nigerian Prisons barracks and the Central Police Station, Enugu, on July 28, yesterday, cried out to the Federal Government to urgently come to their aid through provision of shelter and relief materials.

The appeal is coming even as arrangement has been intensified to bury two of the four members of a family that lost their lives in the fire incident caused by petrol tanker accident at the Nigerian Prisons roundabout. The burial has been fixed for Friday.

The appeal by the victims who were rendered homeless, was made when the legislator representing Enugu North/South Federal Constituency at the National Assembly, Mr. Ofor Chukwuegbo, paid a sympathy visit to the two barracks in Enugu.

Chukwuegbo donated N500,000 to the victims in the two barracks with a promise to take their case to the Federal Government to enable them get the needed relief materials without further delay.

One of the victims, Inspector Kenneth Oti, told the legislator who was accompanied by Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftains from his constituency, that they lost everything to the inferno.

He urged the legislator to assist in drawing the attention of the Federal Government to their plight in order to ensure their resettlement without further delay. He said that the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, which was expected to come to their rescue had not shown up since the incident occurred.

Oti said: “The government should please expedite action because many of us affected by this incident have nowhere to stay at present. At night we share our children among houses of other people to sleep, while we, their parents,take shelter outside. We are left with nothing. We need urgent assistance.”