Tag: market fires
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Implement market fire reports to prevent reoccurrence of such incidents – BPS
The Bureau of Public Safety says the country may continue to record fire outbreaks in its markets unless it begins to make public reports of earlier incidents and implement findings stated in these reports. Executive Director of the Bureau of Public Safety, Nana Yaw Akwada, stressed that until that is done, these fires would continue…
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Market fires: GUTA demands compensation for affected traders
The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) is demanding compensation for all traders whose shops have been affected in the market fires recorded in the country in recent times. Several markets, including the Odawna, Kantamanto, and the most recent one, the Kaneshie market have been razed by fire within the last two months. The President…
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Odorna fire: Uninsured shops trigger compulsory insurance
Players in the country’s insurance sector are calling for the enforcement of the “compulsory insurance for commercial properties”. Their call follows the recent fire that gutted the Odorna market on the 17th of January,2019. Some occupants of the market lost their goods running into thousands of Ghana cedis. Ghana’s insurance industry however continues to record…