Gombe Traders Urges Govt To Fence Market To Forestall Future Attacks By Insurgents

Kalshingi H Jedidah

Chairman Traders Association Major Line, Gombe main market Alh Mohammed Nura has called on government and other relevant bodies to intensify effort of providing adequate security to the people by fencing the Gombe main market in other to secure the lives and properties of traders and their customers.

Speaking to journalists yesterday in Gombe at the occasion of presentation of relief materials to the victims of Gombe main market bomb explosion by the National Emergency Management Agency(NEMA), Nura said, following the recent Sallah eve bomb explosion traders at the market have been living in fear as to lack of appropriate arragement to secure the market from future attack.

Against this backdrop he said traders within the market took some decision to implore the services of local security guards to ensure that any one coming into the market  was properly checked, even as he expressed worry over the unfenced borders of the market which he said made the market even more vulnarable.”unless the market is properly fenced there won’t be adequate security.” He added.

While presenting the relief items to the victims, the Head Of Operations Gombe NEMA office, Alh Saidu Ahmed Minin stated that, the relief items which include building materials, food items, clothes, and some household items were approved by the NEMA Director General Alh Mohammed Sani Sidi as part of the federal government effort to bring belief to the victims of bomb explosion, wind storm, and flood disaster in the state.

Minin who said the federal government had been providing such assistance for a long time also said, the gesture was as a result of collaborative effort by the agency and the State Emergency Management Agency ( SEMA) who took assessment of victims, level of damage, number of death, and made recommendations to the federal government on the need and how to usher in the assistance.

Meanwhile, Executive Secretary Gombe SEMA Dr Danlami Arabs Rukuje has said, in as much as government is making effort to mitigate disasters despite of competing demands, more efforts on tree planting and improved sensitisation and education of the people on the need to plant more trees are some of the activities government would want to aggressively pursue in other to mitigate  disasters.

According to him,  major disasters that affects the state especially this year, ware wind storm and flooding, adding that, apart from the issues of climate change, the issues of deforestation has been a major concern to the state.