12-year-old boy innocently burns his father's 2,500 yam tubers

General News of Sunday, February 3, 2019

Source: mynewsgh.com

2019-02-03

A 39 – year – old Welembelle farmer from the East Sissala Municipality, in the Upper West West area, accounts for his losses after his 12 – year – old son burned more than 2,500 tubers. yam that he had harvested and stored in a barn while he was organizing the transport of the wagon. in the center of the market.

The burned yam estimated at several thousand Cedis was literally reduced to ashes in the barn that he had stored while waiting to be transported for sale.

Mohammed Balu of Radford FM, based in Tumu, says that Adamu Adama Nansia revealed that his son had caused the fire while he was playing with a stick of matches on the farm near the barn in tarch.

The fire that MyNewsGh.com collected began with heavy smoke and then ignited in flames. When the boy understood what he was doing, he tried to put out the hell at this time when it was already late.

The helpless boy was now shouting for help as the father who was at home rushed to the scene and watched in shock as the yams he had been working for months to grow and harvest, burned.

In an interview, he reportedly said, "I am grateful to God for my son's life. The loss is estimated at about 10,000 Ghana cedis and now my yams sold to feed my family, including the yam plants, have all been burned. "

He blamed the yam poor market because of prices, a reason to keep them in the stable with the hope of soaring prices in order to generate a profit margin.