Dengershufu Market To Be Relocated After Fire Outbreak: Mayor

This article was last updated on May 25, 2022

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The Malakal city mayor James Daniel Chuang said the shops owners will be moved to the south of Wadjuok new surveyed market to operate there from there.

“We are going to completely remove them from those areas to other areas because the area that got burnt is an illegal area for them. It is the government reserve land along the Nile so to solve this we shall take them to the already surveyed area at South-East of the City in the new surveyed residential area,” said Chuang.

“The breweries are to be move to South East near Mohamed Ajak forest reserve along the road to Baliet-Malakal main road, it is already surveyed,” he added.

He urged the traders to be careful to avoid a repeat of what happened.

Chuang also said that the burnt area is estimated to be four blocks without infliction of any human casualties, including four residential plots near the market, ten local brewery houses, twenty kiosk with different types of trading, and 43 tents houses for traders.

There was an estimated amount of 14,400 SSP cash in the houses inform of bank notes which were reported to have been lost in the incidents.

The total cost for all burnt shops including all houses of the residential areas is 441,585 SSP as the cost for building and materials burned.

“Grand total for cash money lost and cost for all the houses, shops, tents‘s material burned is 455, 985,” Chuang said.

The Malakal City Mayor will write a memo to the council of ministers to help in compensation and assist those affected.

“This is human made disaster, because it was due to the negligence from the breweries for leaving the fire without putting it off,” said Chuang.

“We in the city council lack vehicles for fire extinguishing so it made the curbing of the fire to become hard,” he added.

He appealed to the state government to purchase a fire engine to help the authorities in the future.