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General News of Monday, January 21, 2019
Source: citinewsroom.com
2019-01-21
About 80 stores were razed by the fire on Wednesday night.
The Odorna market, which was hit by a fire last week, will be open today. [Monday] to the public after its temporary closure.
The Accra Metropolitan Executive Director, Mohammed Nii Adjei Sowah, had claimed that the operators could not continue to operate in the market immediately after the fire, their activities thus affecting the work of the investigators.
Some traders have complained that closing the market makes their situation worse because they do not have other means of livelihood.
About 80 stores were razed by the fire on Wednesday night.
Richard Mensah, executive secretary of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly's working group on the market, who was one of the first to arrive at the scene, told Citi News that the company was not the only one on the scene. Assembly would take steps to address preventable human errors, often responsible for such incidents.
The Klottey-Korley MP, Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, in whose territory the market is located, called for an immediate badessment of the structural integrity of the market in order to avoid future outbreaks.
But an opinion leader in the market, Salamatu Adams, wants the Metropolitan Assembly to prevent people from sleeping and cooking in the market.
No loss was found beyond the destruction caused to the merchants' merchandise against thousands of Ghana Cedis.
In the same market, a similar fire occurred in 2013.
Investigators still have to determine the cause of the fire.
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