Fire Fighters Patrol K’si Market at Night

Personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has started patrolling the Kumasi Central Market, especially at night.

This has led to the sharp reduction of reported cases fire outbreaks in the market, lately.

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), under the leadership of the current Chief Executive, Hon Osei Assibey-Antwi, mooted the idea for the assembly to collaborate with the fire fighters to stop the disturbing fire outbreaks.

Hon. Osei Assibey Antwi made the disclosure when he visited the Kumasi Central Market to interact with the 52 market associations about the upcoming events and programmes about to take place in the market.

He said the fires were becoming too many as traders often lost their wares and their source of livelihood to inferno, hence the Assembly’s decision to collaborate with the GNFS to help make fire outbreaks a thing of the past at the market.

The KMA Boss said the Assembly had tasked a group of qualified electricians, who have worked to identify all the faulty electrical spots in the market, adding that the identified areas would be properly worked on, very soon.

Hon. Osei Assibey also said the Assembly’s decision to ban the cooking of food in the market had also helped to reduce the rampant fire outbreaks, announcing that the ban was still in force and that offenders would not be spared.

He stated that plans are far advanced for the construction of the second phase of the Kejetia/Central Market Redevelopment project which the government had released US$100 for the project to start.

According to him, the drawings and other preparatory works for the commencement of the ultra-modern project had been completed, indicating that very soon the project would commence in the city.

The KMA Boss assured the market women that they would be properly relocated to the Kejetia Bus Terminal, which is the first phase of the three-phased project, to make way for the second phase to start.

The market women, in unison, commended Hon. Osei Assibey over his humble and respectable nature, assuring that they would comply fully with any directive from the mayor to help Kumasi to transform.

By: Akwasi Boakye/ thePublisher