Former Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on Tuesday, paid a working go to to the Adum Blue Gentle fireplace catastrophe scene in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital, to sympathise with the affected merchants.
Dr Bawumia, who was accompanied by some Members of Parliament, former authorities appointees and main members of the NPP, donated GH¢200,000.00 and 1,000 baggage of cement to assist the restoration efforts of the merchants.
The Former Vice President appealed to the merchants to train restraint and look ahead to report on investigations into the hearth outbreak to ascertain the precise explanation for the catastrophe.
The fireplace, which occurred on Friday, March 21, ravaged all the Blue Gentle market enclave within the Central Enterprise District of Kumasi, destroying merchandise value hundreds of thousands of Ghana cedis, and rendering a whole bunch of merchants jobless and likewise plunging them into enormous monetary loses.
The reason for the hearth outbreak is but to be established, however a number of the affected merchants are pointing accusing fingers on the persistent energy fluctuations within the space, previous to the outbreak.
The Ashanti Regional Safety Council had already ordered investigations into the catastrophe.
President John Dramani Mahama had already visited the victims, and instructed the Nationwide Catastrophe Administration Organisation (NADMO) to make sure that affected merchants have been supported with reduction gadgets.
The NADMO, the Ghana National Fireplace Service and different safety businesses have been nonetheless working to clear the particles to pave the way in which for the reconstruction of the market.
Whereas the federal government needs to clear the realm and put together it for the development of a contemporary market, the affected merchants are calling on the government to permit them to reconstruct the market by themselves.
The merchants argue that it will take an extended time for the federal government to finish such mission, and the delay might impression on their livelihoods.
Once more, most of them lamented that they’d not have the ability to afford the lease if the federal government constructed the market by a non-public developer.
In a associated growth, a delegation from the Kumasi Conventional Council had additionally visited the scene to evaluate the state of affairs and report back to the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.
