Eliminate the ‘bad master’ destroying lives and property
The Ghana Fire Service continues to refire outbreaks were recorded in 2020
Dear Editor,
Over the years, domestic and industrial fires across the country beat one’s imagination of what really the problem is. I have heard and read in the news countless number of fire outbreaks and their attendant havoc to life and property.
l vividly remember a passage in the Primary English Reader titled: “Fire is a good servant but a bad master”. Really, if this saying is anything to go by, how can we tame this master to be an excellent servant?
I quite remember during the former President John Dramani Mahama’s reign where fire incident was quite rampant and hardly a week passed without news on fire outbreaks in the country.
Can Ghanaians ever forget the twin disaster, i.e the fire and flood at Kwame Nkrumah Circle in 2015 which claimed hundreds of lives and destroyed property running into millions of cedis and maimed many?
I was sad and heart-broken when l read on page three of the Ghanaian Times on September 12, 2022, where three fire incidents killed some people including a pregnant woman, while another five-bedroom self-contained house was also razed down.
When these incidents occur, we are often told by security agencies that “investigations are under way” to ascertain the cause of the fire. However, these ‘findings’ somewhat remain a ‘mystery.’ Citizens do not get to know the outcome of the investigations. The least they hear sometimes is that the fire may have been caused by an ‘electrical fault’.
If faulty electrical installations are, indeed, the case, then what has happened to the law regarding using prescribed electrical materials and certified electricians to carry out any wiring activity?
I, therefore, wish to use your medium to call on all relevant stakeholders including the Ghana Energy Commission, the Electricity Company of Ghana and Ministry of Energy to step up their supervisory roles in order to drastically and if possible, eliminate this “bad master” destroying lives and property.
By Godwin Anthony Nkunu
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