The Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) has been indicted of complexity in the Sabon Gari market fire outbreak last year where valuables worth billions of Naira was lost.

KEDCO had denied allegations leveled against it by the traders who insisted that the inferno was as a result of electrical spark emanating from a power source in the market.

Gathering revealing the abridged report of the Judicial Commission of Enquiry, Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, on Monday confirmed that finding has identified electrical spark as major cause of the outbreak, the worse case recorded in recent times.

The panel, which was inaugurated by the governor late last year and charged with examining the cause of the inferno, identify extent of damage and loss by traders, had recently submitted its findings to the state government.

Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, who spoke while receiving cheque of N500 million donated by Aliko Dangote, said the state had so far received N1.2 billion in the appeal fund, and reassured victims of quick disbursement to the affected traders. 

The Governor commended Aliko Dangote for bringing relief to the people and traders in Kano State.

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