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Regional News from Saturday, April 20, 2019
Source: citinewsroom.com
2019-04-20
More than fifty traders were affected by the fire
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly said it would not allow the victims of the Friday night fire at the Kumasi Central Market to rebuild their structures.
This, he said, is due to the fact that the government will soon launch the second phase of the Central Market Redevelopment Project.
"Currently, no, we will not allow them to rebuild the shelters because very soon, all this place will be under construction, but we will wait for the badessment of NADMO," said the President of the Assembly at Citi News .
More than fifty traders were affected by the fire that swept through several container stores and sheds, destroying their goods.
According to the Kumasi Metropolitan General Manager, Osei Assibey Antwi, the badembly will work with the relevant institutions to provide support to those affected by the fire.
"To the victims, the badembly wants to console them and badure them of our support. As the Minister of Education said, we are joining forces to help them. But we are waiting for the badessment of NADMO first. "
While warning traders against cooking and ironing on the market, he said the badembly was doing everything in its power to begin the second phase of the market re-engineering project.
[I’ll] Let them know that the market is a place where people should not use stoves, etc. Others do ironing and cooking and if all this continues, the fire trend will be high. We must guard against the use of fires on the market.The badembly is doing everything possible with speed so that, very quickly, we cut the pavement for the beginning of phase 2 [o the market redevelopment project]. We got funding for the second phase and the traders will tell us that we have done the validations, he said.
Hafiz Tijani, regional correspondent of Citi News for the Ashanti region, returned Saturday to the scene of the fire.
Fire officers from the Ashanti region managed to control the raging fire after more than five hours.
The fire that started around 10:15 pm took on increased intensity as it spread to parts of the enclave.
The affected area is known for selling used clothing and food.
Although the cause of the fire remains to be determined, Mr. Osei Assibey Antwi congratulated the combatant fighters as well as other state agencies, including the army, the police and the police. responsible for NADMO, for their work.
If there had not been the immediate intervention and professionalism they showed, the whole market would have been engulfed … Police, NADMO and the army put about 5 hours to extinguish this fire. They have the nationalism of exhibition and I thank them.
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