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Parts of Kaneshie Market on Fire
The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has asked the Ghana Electricity Company (ECG) to carry out an assessment of all Ghanaian markets to help solve illegal electrical connection problems.
This follows recent fire outbreaks that have destroyed properties worth thousands of Ghanaian cedis in the markets of Kantamanto, Kaneshie, Odawna and Koforidua.
In a radio interview on Accra-based Citi FM on Monday, GNFS public relations officer Mr. Ellis Robinson Okoe said that some of the recent market fires are partly due to illegal electrical connections and negligence. by traders in the markets. .
Mr. Okoe explained that after the fires in the Kantamanto and Odawna markets, the GNFS observed that there were many illegal electrical connections.
Therefore, he appealed to the ECG to conduct an immediate assessment and disconnect all those illegal connections in markets across the country.
“Many of these markets have illegal connections with regard to electricity and, in fact, the slightest carelessness and negligence on the part of the users of this facility can cause a fire.”
He added that carelessness and negligence on the part of electricity users can result in a fire and that the GNFS will call the market authorities so that such mistakes are not repeated.
“In most of these markets the areas that were burned have been secured and we will collaborate with market authorities during the rebuilding to ensure that the same mistakes that were made to cause this outbreak are not repeated,” he added.
Background
There have been several fire outbreaks in markets across the country causing the destruction of millions of Ghana Cedis worth of property.
Over the past two weeks, the Koforidua and Kantamanto markets were affected by the fires.
According to the managers of the Kaneshie Market Complex, it is the first time that the market that was built in the 1970s has been affected by a fire.
The market is managed by Kaneshie Market Complex Limited and is owned by the National Investment Bank (NIB), the GCB Bank, (GCB), the State Insurance Company (SIC) and the Accra Metropolitan Authority (AMA).
It houses more than 100,000 merchants who trade in various goods and services.
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