The Oyo State Road Transport Management Authority (OYRTMA) and its counterpart, Oyo State Fire Service have agreed to jointly launch a Rapid Response Team in the state to enhance the state fire service’s timely intervention to fire incidents at market places.
Revealing this today in Ibadan, the Chairman of OYRTMA, Dr. Akin Fagbemi asserted that the Rapid Response Team would put an end to the complete blockade of access roads to the markets by the haphazard and indiscriminate parking of vehicles.
Fagbemi, who was reacting to the recent fire incident at Alawo Market, Dugbe, Ibadan, said, “This will further corroborate and enhance the efficacy of the state fire service by clearing access roads and towing all encumbrances that could delay timely access to the fire sources for subsequent quenching’’.
Fagbemi stated that “OYRTMA, as a proactive and responsive government agency has put in place workable framework to collaborate, in a Joint Rapid Response Operation, with the State’s Fire Service. While I commiserate with all affected traders in the inferno that occurred at Dugbe, may I seize this opportunity to join the Governor of Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde to beseech marketers, both sellers and buyers, to maintain high level of discipline as regards road usage in the market places”.
It would be recalled that, on Wednesday, April 15 2020, over twenty shops and stores at the Dugbe-Alawo market in Ibadan, Oyo State Capital, were gutted by fire.
