Some merchants on the Adum Market have strongly criticised the present authorities over the dire state of affairs on the market following a fireplace outbreak.
The fire started in the early hours of March 21 at the popular Blue Light Arena, close to Howdy FM, earlier than quickly spreading to adjoining retailers, inflicting vital losses for a lot of merchants within the space.
It’s believed that the fireplace was brought on by {an electrical} fault, which unfold additional as a result of congestion of outlets. Nevertheless, investigations are but to verify the precise explanation for the blaze.
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Some merchants, devastated by their losses, blamed the federal government for the alleged electrical faults that will have triggered the fireplace. One dealer, in anger, accused the federal government of the continued ‘dumsor’, which he believes led to the fault that began the fireplace.
Daily, you’re giving us dumsor. Why are you [the government] doing this to us? Why? You’ve been doing dumsor till the entire market has burnt down. I’ve been on this market for a few years, and it’s only right this moment that it has burnt! What have Asante folks finished to deserve this?
In the meantime, one other distressed dealer expressed deep disappointment over the Ghana Fireplace Service’s incapacity to successfully include the fireplace, citing a scarcity of sufficient gear, resembling helicopters.
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We’re in Ghana right here, and we don’t also have a helicopter to cease the fireplace. This authorities is simply right here to steal the folks’s cash.
In response to the fireplace outbreak, President Mahama has visited the devastated market to assess the extent of the damage. He pledged to assist the victims of the fireplace and has additionally directed NADMO to help the affected merchants.
