Over 100 victims of an inferno that razed down a whole compound in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital on the 4th April 2012, were given relief materials worth N5.4million including food stuff, mattresses and blanket on Sunday.

The Special Assistant to Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed on Emergency and Relief Matters, Alhaji Musa Abdullahi who distributed the materials at the victims' residence, Ile-Alaaro, Gambari area in Ilorin East local government, also disclosed that the state government had received 250 reports of fire outbreak across the 16 local government areas of the state which are on the lists of victims that would be catered for.

The government, he said was worried about the victims of the compound whose homes, household materials and livelihood were lost to the inferno saying "government had lost sleep over the issue, because we thought that you will not find a place to live.

The Special Assistant who noted that government could not  fully compensate them on the property lost, said they could pick up their lives from the relief materials distributed to them stressing that the administration  believes in people's comfort and would continue to ensure their lives were properly protected.

The leader of the Community, Malam  Jimoh Alaaro who received the relief materials on behalf of the victims, said no amount of words could describe the worthiness of the gestures the state government extended to the people of the area.