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Fire destroys Kumasi office of VAT service
Kumasi, April 23, Ghanadot/GNA - The
staff and workers of the Kumasi office of the Value Added
Tax (VAT) Service as well as other workers whose offices are
located on the SIC building at Bompata in Kumasi are yet to
come to terms as to how fire swept through the offices of
the Service and destroyed everything.
The devastating fire, which was said to have started around
0001 hour on Wednesday, destroyed everything including
computers, files, documents, cabinets, tables and chairs,
televisions, radios, electrical fittings among others in the
offices of the regional head of the service, his deputy as
well as the general administration.
Parts of the offices of the Ashanti Regional branch of
Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ)
also got burnt down.
It took personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service several
hours to bring down the fire under control.
The cause of the fire outbreak is not yet known.
Mr Akwasi Dwumah-Asante, Deputy Commissioner of VAT
In-charge of Operations, said even though everything in the
offices had got burnt, there was a back-up system which has
all the vital information on clients.
The Service assured the public in a statement issued on
Wednesday that it would continue to run normal business to
the public.
It said due to its computerized and adequate back-up systems
in place, no client information had been lost and therefore,
a lot of information was available for the reconstruction of
traders' files.
It urged the public, especially traders, to continue to file
their returns.
It also assured the public that the police and the fire
Service were conducting investigations into the cause of the
fire outbreak.
GNA
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