Inside a section of Enugu’s Auto Parts Market at Coal Camp, Chidiebere Emeh and her younger sister are bent to the ground and picking up what is left from the rubble after their shop was raised down by fire.
A day before, on Tuesday, December 12, Emeh’s family shop was packed full with bolts, nots and other spare parts. Customers were trooping in and out, picking items, making payments and exchanging pleasantries. Now, everything is gone. The shop. The products.
It started at exactly 12 midnight on Wednesday, December 13 2023. Emeh was still asleep when she got a call from one of her siblings who told her that there was a fire outbreak and that their shop was affected.
