The Lagos Territorial Office with LASEMA, Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture and Nigeria Police Force (Disaster Management Unit) successfully carried out a direct distribution of relief materials to traders affected by the fire outbreak at Mandilas building (market) on 14th July, 2024.
The exercise took place at the Zumratul Nursery and Primary school located opposite the Market. The distribution exercise began with checking and identifying the names of the affected traders and the stacking of the items for easy distributions. The Iya Oloja of Mandilas Alhaja Olatunji Rasheedat thanked the Federal Government through NEMA on behalf of the affected traders and prayed for peace and
unity in Lagos State and Nigeria as a whole. The Head of Search and Rescue Unit, Ibitayo Adenike who represented the Director General, sympathized with the beneficiaries and prayed against such occurrence. She appealed to them to be more safety conscious, take necessary actions to prevent fire outbreak and say something whenever they notice something that is not right.
The beneficiaries expressed their profound appreciation to the Federal Government of Nigeria for coming to their aid.
