 We know that on Sunday morning, there was a fire at the Ladikwur spare parts market. Millions of Naira were destroyed because you know that's where lots of young enterprise Nigerians had you know stalls and warehouses where they you know sold spare parts and one of them, one of these young Nigerians is a man named Pizza Ifesinachi Solomon. So he posted you know that's him you're seeing on your screen right now. He had posted a picture of his shop fully stocked with spare parts and him standing in front of the shop you know maybe he had just made lots of purchases but then a few days later Sunday you saw what happened. There was a fire that didn't go fan market. He lost everything in his shop. He sent out an SOS on social media the power of Twitter you know went into play saying you know life can be cruel. Help me bounce back. He put out his account number, his other account details and people began to make donations. He would tweet one after the other saying so and so sent me 20,000. God bless you so and so sent me 5,000. God bless you and it's just been a lot. You know we understand the power of social media as a rallying point you know to get people help in many cases and we're now being joined by Peter Solomon via Zoom. Good morning Peter. Good morning. Thank you for joining us this morning. First of all I want you to tell me your experience about that market fire. Where were you when you heard about you know that accident? It was on Sunday morning I was in the church where my phone was ringing then it rang too much like I was like what is happening then I came out of the church pick up the call and then I had the bad news straight up I went to the market I went there and in fact would reach all my goods everything my two shops everything are down the fire was so much that even the fire fighters them the way they were spraying water but still it was too much it was too much what was the cause of the fire still nobody knows but the way the fire was burning and everything it looks like someone actually went there and burned off everything because it's not like an electricity fire it was actually burning so hard that from up and down it was it was terrible you know we've seen you know how social media has been able to assist you but let's start from you know how much you lost you said you had two shops where the two shops completely damaged yes sir yeah so give us an you know an idea of you know what you may have lost with that incident what I actually lost in that incident it's something that if actually I was not strong enough I could have just taken out taking out my life seriously because my shop up it contains a lot of loose like if you come over here I'm known for someone that sells a very costly product even at my age I was someone I my my up shop can be valued less than 50 million error let alone the down shop alone it's something that is heartbreaking seriously okay so what what then inspired you to you know put that message out on social media and call for for help oh I'm someone that I've always been on social media my social media type I post my business is there so when it happened I don't know where else to go to there's no place I just have to beg Nigerians to help because I don't know where to start from after graduating from school I just have to go into business so at least for the moment but just look at everything I don't know so I don't know I know who in anybody that has life has to but at this time if there's no help the country is hard so what do I start from I don't so terrible all right Peter you put out your srs message on I know at 10 a.m on May 31st 2021 that was just yesterday so how much have you been able to raise how much has Nigerians contributed to you um since then um I've been able to raise like 500 thousand at least an amount that can get me a shop for now then see anyhow again I can actually go hard again and survive wow I don't know what do you what do you say about that so these are strangers they don't know you from Adam but making these donations just because you know I don't know anyone I don't know anybody no I'm saying I'm saying how do you how do you feel about that I feel grateful I feel I feel I feel actually impressed I'm I'm so proud of Nigerians I just believe that the country is just okay like I'm I'm so impressed I'm grateful to everyone that I've made donations so far I'm impressed with the token it's not easy in the economy situation and everything I'm impressed all right and like you said you know this should be enough for you to get you a shop um and then you know hopefully you know you should be able to raise you know some money some support somewhere or the other uh to get back into business right so how about your your I'm very sure you have friends in the market how about your friends in the market who lost um you know their property as well um can you give us a sense of just how much you know the losses were on their own side I can't really tell but most people affected in the plaza where those that the fire got got ablaze we are mostly youths we are just young people from 24 to 28 years mostly in the plaza we're just young so it affected us very well youths especially that is where we are mostly so I we are just building up most people are building up someone some people are just set to not long ago so and everything now is gone everything not even a pin would you also because we know this conversation of course is expressing the power of social media and how Nigerians can step in for even persons that they don't know um a couple of your friends and your colleagues in the market you know would you you know ask them to do pretty much same open their own Twitter accounts and seek help okay are we well um we wish you um you know somehow that you can recover from this and get back in business before the end of the year uh thank you very much for speaking with us this morning and once again our apologies for what happened uh last weekend yes Peter as since our apologies and I want to tell you to stay strong stay strong or certain that you will bounce back remember all right have a great day