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Ebeano Supermarket Fire: Nigerians In Dilemma On Putting Blame

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As the smouldering embers of what’s left of the popular Ebeano supermarket, Abuja dissolve into ashes, facts of what led to the inferno that caused the destruction of goods worth billions of naira have emerged.

The outcome of investigation and the release of the CCTV footage has put many Nigerians in bewielderment given the revelation that a nine year old girl set the Ebeano Supermarket ablaze.

Little initially was known of what caused the conflagration that razed down the supermarket, which was located in  Lokogoma area of the FCT, when the incident occurred last week, but a CCTV footage captured how the supermarket was set afire.

In a trending video online, a teenager, who was said to have gone to Ebeano Supermarket with her mother, was seen with a lighter walking down one of the aisles, she stopped by one of the racks on which goods were placed, fired up the lighter and dropped it in between the goods on the rack which contained inflammable and combustible items.

In another video, the girl admitted to setting the Ebeano Supermarket ablaze. She said she had accompanied her mother to the store to get something for her sister but left them to go carry out the heinous act.

However, reactions have begun to trail the video has Nigerians share their views and perspectives on the incident.

While some apportioned blame to owner of Ebeano Supermarket for not doing enough by investing in appropriate equipment and facilities that would have forestalled the inferno, others excoriated the teenager for such detestable act, attributing her action to poor upbringing and parental irresponsibility.

There are some who inferred that the incident was premeditated and a pure case of economic sabotage, noting that the child was used in perpetrating the despicable act.

 

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