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Parts of the Kaneshie market on fire
The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has commissioned the Ghana Electricity Company (ECG) to conduct an assessment of all markets in Ghana to help resolve illegal power connection issues.
This follows recent fires that destroyed properties worth thousands of Ghanaian cedis in the markets of Kantamanto, Kaneshie, Odawna and Koforidua.
In an interview with Accra-based Citi FM radio on Monday, GNFS public relations officer Mr. Ellis Robinson Okoe said some of the recent fires in the market were partly due to illegal power connections and neglect of 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 power connections.
So he asked the ECG to do an immediate assessment and disconnect all of these illegal connections in markets across the country.
“Many of these markets have an illegal connection with electricity and, moreover, the slightest recklessness and neglect on the part of the users of this installation can cause a fire.”
He added that recklessness and carelessness on the part of electricity users can lead to fires and that the GNFS will ask market authorities to ensure that such mistakes do not happen again.
“In most of these markets, the areas that were set on fire have been made safe and we will be working with market authorities during the reconstruction to ensure that the very mistakes that were made to cause this outbreak will not happen again,” he said. he added.
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A number of fires have occurred in markets across the country resulting in the destruction of goods worth millions of cedis from Ghana.
In the past two weeks, the markets of Koforidua and Kantamanto have been affected by fire.
According to officials of the Kaneshie market complex, this is the first time that the market built in the 1970s has been affected by a fire.
The market is managed by Kaneshie Market Complex Limited and owned by the National Investment Bank (NIB), GCB Bank, (GCB), State Insurance Company (SIC) and Accra Metropolitan Authority ( AMA).
It is home to over 100,000 traders who sell various goods and services.
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