Oyo Community Plunge Into Total Darkness As Fire Razes Shops, Transformer

Maya community in Lanlate town in Ibarapa East Local Government Area in the Ibarapa geo-political zone of Oyo State has been thrown into total darkness, DAILY POST reports.Our correspondent gathered that the community was thrown into total darkness due to a fire incident that destroyed the electric transformer serving the whole community.It was gathered on Friday that goods and property worth millions of naira were destroyed in the fire that razed some shops and stalls at Maya market in Lanlate town.Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Adebo Ogundoyin, representing Ibarapa East Constituency, confirmed the incident on Friday.He said he had visited the community to assess the level of damage.He said that the incident has paralysed the socio-economic activities of the people of the community.Ogundoyin said, Quote“I was at Maya Market, Lanlate, in Ibarapa East Local Government to inspect a section of the market gutted by fire.“Shops and stalls, including goods, were completely burnt in