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Minister inaugurates eight-member
fact-finding Committee
Kumasi, March 27, GNA - Mr Emmanuel Asamoah Owusu-Ansah,
Ashanti Regional Minister, on Tuesday inaugurated an
eight-member fact-finding committee to investigate
circumstances that led to the fire outbreak at the Kumasi
Central Market on March 9.
The Committee has Mr Pat Hagan, Ashanti Regional Economic
Planning Officer, as Chairman and Mr Charles Oteng, Deputy
Director at the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC), as
Secretary.
Others are the Regional Security Coordinator; Regional Fire
Officer and the Metropolitan Engineer of the Kumasi
Metropolitan Assembly.
The rest are the Regional Coordinator of the National
Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Regional Police
Commander or his Representative, The Engineer, Electricity
Company of Ghana, Kumasi East and Mr James Oti of the Kumasi
Central Market Traders Association.
The Regional Minister said the committee would provide a
policy guideline report to prevent such calamities in the
future and had three weeks to do its work.
He said the report should include the cause or causes of the
fire outbreak, number of people affected by the disaster,
estimated cost of property destroyed and to advise on
security and safety measures at the Market.
Mr Owusu-Ansah expressed the sympathy of RCC to the affected
traders and their families.
The Chairman of the Committee said they would work
assiduously and present a report that would help to reduce
fire outbreaks in the Region.
GNA
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