Malicious persons behind market fires – former chief fire officer suspects

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NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 10 years ago

DO YOU NEED TO THINK FAR? NO! NPP IS BEHIND ALL THESE MARKET FIRES. BUT WE WILL GET THEM RED-HANDED AND DISGRACE THEM SOON. JUST WATCH OUT. THE END OF NPP IS NIGH.

DO YOU NEED TO THINK FAR? NO! NPP IS BEHIND ALL THESE MARKET FIRES. BUT WE WILL GET THEM RED-HANDED AND DISGRACE THEM SOON. JUST WATCH OUT. THE END OF NPP IS NIGH.
Pito Brewer 10 years ago

They started with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since then, they have been emboldened by the apparent toothlessness of the nation's security apparatus. Beware, my fellow countrymen! The wicked practices of the "mate meho" ...
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They started with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since then, they have been emboldened by the apparent toothlessness of the nation's security apparatus. Beware, my fellow countrymen! The wicked practices of the "mate meho" thugs are being re-born.
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Pito Brewer 10 years ago

Do you do any work?

Do you do any work?
Lona 10 years ago

Stupid people like u and your comrades have nothing sensible to say. It better to keep quit than to open your mouth and talking shit

Stupid people like u and your comrades have nothing sensible to say. It better to keep quit than to open your mouth and talking shit
princo 10 years ago

The arsonist could as well be the NDC, Which is seeking to rebuild the 'slum' markets. Just cast your mind back to what the mayor of accra did and said after the katamanto fire incident

The arsonist could as well be the NDC, Which is seeking to rebuild the 'slum' markets. Just cast your mind back to what the mayor of accra did and said after the katamanto fire incident
Takashi 10 years ago

I know who the arsonists are. They are the irresponsible, inept and incompetent govts who have been given the mandate and privilege by the people of this country to govern the nation but only managed, in cahoots with their hi ...
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I know who the arsonists are. They are the irresponsible, inept and incompetent govts who have been given the mandate and privilege by the people of this country to govern the nation but only managed, in cahoots with their hirelings and sycophants, to steal state resources for themselves instead of improving the utilities and public infrastructure.

I think this Akyianu guy should also just shut up and stop betraying his incompetence. Sleeping in the markets indeed! What did he do in his time as Chief Fire Officer to qualitatively improve the competence of the Fire Service to meet the demands of this country? Zilch! As a result of many more of his incompetent kind, before him and after him, today we have to shamefully solicit the assistance of foreigners to come and find out the cause of fires in this country.

Common-sense should tell the few of us in this country who have some of this rare commodity that, when you have a maze of countless illegally installed meters in our markets that feed off the main lines, with each meter over-loaded with scores of other individual illegal users - and added to this, continuous 'dumsor', of course you are bound to have fires here and there.

For me, it surprises me that we dont have many more fires than what we have been having under the present pathetic circumstances.
NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 10 years ago

NPP ARE SORE LOSERS WHO THINK THE ONLY WAY TO SATISFY THEMSELVES IS TO WRECK GHANA, DESTROY MARKET WOMEN'S LIVELIHOODS TO CREATE ANGER AGAINST NDC AND THE HUMBLE PRESIDENT. BUT THEY WILL NOT SUCCEED. WE WILL GET NPP ARSONIST ...
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NPP ARE SORE LOSERS WHO THINK THE ONLY WAY TO SATISFY THEMSELVES IS TO WRECK GHANA, DESTROY MARKET WOMEN'S LIVELIHOODS TO CREATE ANGER AGAINST NDC AND THE HUMBLE PRESIDENT. BUT THEY WILL NOT SUCCEED. WE WILL GET NPP ARSONIST RED-HANDED. HOW LONG HAVE WE HAD THESE MARKETS AND ELECTRICAL WIRINGS? WHY ARE THEY NOW BURNING, ONLY AT NIGHT? SO THERE IS FOUL PLAY BY NPP TO DESTROY MAHAMA'S PRESIDENCY AND THE NDC. BUT GHANAIANS WILL SOON REALIZE THIS WICKED DEEDS OF NPP WILL NEVER ELECT THEM TO POWER AGAIN. SHAMEFUL NPP.
EZEKIEL 10 years ago

The CORPSES thrown around the country a few years ago BEFORE elections......we know which party was behind!!!

The CORPSES thrown around the country a few years ago BEFORE elections......we know which party was behind!!!
Koo Nimo 10 years ago

Mr Akyianu is a liar. The possible causes of the fire include poor construction, illegal electricity connections, litter and carelessness on the part of people who use the markets as sleeping place. When he was boss at fire s ...
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Mr Akyianu is a liar. The possible causes of the fire include poor construction, illegal electricity connections, litter and carelessness on the part of people who use the markets as sleeping place. When he was boss at fire service did the personnel ever undertake fire prevention exercise in the markets. Please Mr Akyianu do not waste our time
Anthony 10 years ago

KOO NIMO, DONT ANNOY US TODAY. STOP THIS CONSTRUCTION, LITTER AND CABLE ARGUMENTS. I SUSPECT THAT YOU ARE ONE OF THE SABOTEURS AND YOU ARE AFRAID. BE CAREFUL NOW BECAUSE MR. ACHIANUS SUGGESTION HAS ALREADY BEEN TAKEN AND THER ...
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KOO NIMO, DONT ANNOY US TODAY. STOP THIS CONSTRUCTION, LITTER AND CABLE ARGUMENTS. I SUSPECT THAT YOU ARE ONE OF THE SABOTEURS AND YOU ARE AFRAID. BE CAREFUL NOW BECAUSE MR. ACHIANUS SUGGESTION HAS ALREADY BEEN TAKEN AND THERE ARE HUMAN RATS ALREADY IN PLACE AT THE MARKETS SPYING ON THE RAT HUMANS. IF YOU DARE YOU WILL BE ARRESTED AND TOASTED IN THE BURNING FLAMES
Ligth 10 years ago

YOU ARE RATHER A LIAR, YOU YOUR PARTNERS ARE BEHIND THIS MISCHIEVEMENT

YOU ARE RATHER A LIAR, YOU YOUR PARTNERS ARE BEHIND THIS MISCHIEVEMENT
JA Kuffour 10 years ago

We all know that

We all know that
Anthony 10 years ago

Just listen to the ridiculous suggestions being made by people who think they know too much. KWESI Prat is one of them. And then some fools In the NPP came to suggest that some rats are chewing cables. It happened that the ra ...
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Just listen to the ridiculous suggestions being made by people who think they know too much. KWESI Prat is one of them. And then some fools In the NPP came to suggest that some rats are chewing cables. It happened that the rats are not only in Accra but also on Kumasi. The matter is very simple. The fire outbreaks are a sabotage and some people must be sent to go and do what Mr. Achianu did some time and in the past. send some CID men and women dressed like market men and women to go and sleep in the market and catch those sons and daughters of bitches and Ghana some peace. Let the theorists give us a break and shut the fuck up.
OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

Why is it hard for authorities to grasp the hard fact that the constant off and on turning of power is the cause of this unfortunate outbreak.
Supposing a trader is in the middle of cooking or doing her/his her with electric ...
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Why is it hard for authorities to grasp the hard fact that the constant off and on turning of power is the cause of this unfortunate outbreak.
Supposing a trader is in the middle of cooking or doing her/his her with electric comb and faces sudden turn off which usually lasts throughout the night. This trader may forget to switch her appliance or equipment off to ward off this catastrophy. A few days ago the security personnel at makola market where such devastation was heavily felt,was reported hearing a loud explosive noise accompanied by balls of roaring flames emanating from a shop in the market as lights came back from sudden turn off. This clearly demonstrates an urgent need to direct serious attention to ECG over its insensitivity and blindness to foreseeability of these consequential disasters.
We must begin to face realities in order to divorce our minds from mythical attributes and speculative assignments of blames. To move forward such minds must travel beyond the usual limited conceptions,be it for political or personal reasons. They have always pulled us behind the barriers of progress.
Anthony 10 years ago

LOOK AT ANOTHER FOOL WHO THINKS THAT THERE IS VIRTUE IN CALLING ONESELF OBURONI AND MAKES THINGS WORSE BY ADDING FITAFITA TO DEMONSTRATE THAT HE IS PURE OBURONI. HE PROBABLY WENT TO EUROPE IN THE EIGHTIES AND ENDED UP WORKING ...
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LOOK AT ANOTHER FOOL WHO THINKS THAT THERE IS VIRTUE IN CALLING ONESELF OBURONI AND MAKES THINGS WORSE BY ADDING FITAFITA TO DEMONSTRATE THAT HE IS PURE OBURONI. HE PROBABLY WENT TO EUROPE IN THE EIGHTIES AND ENDED UP WORKING IN SOME MORTUARY SO HE HAS BECOME AN OBURONI FITAFITA . LOOK AT HIM ALSO COMING OUT WITH ANOTHER THEORY. DOESN'T THEORY WALK HAND IN HAND WITH COMMON SENSE. WHY HAVE THE MARKETS DECIDED THAT THEY WILL SET THEMSELVES ABLAZE AROUND THE SAME TIME?
OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

Usually monkeys like you dont take sensible suggestions from your kind except from us - fitafita. Your finest of women with big asses enjoy our picks with the whip of five cedis notes, we take your gold away in broad daylight ...
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Usually monkeys like you dont take sensible suggestions from your kind except from us - fitafita. Your finest of women with big asses enjoy our picks with the whip of five cedis notes, we take your gold away in broad daylight while you smile and salute idiotically our exits with plane loads of booty from your baboonland.
Boy, I never had a maid in my life till I set foot on baboonland. I am greeted each morning with the famous "yes sir, master what can I do for you today?" I usually let them wash my underwears with dodoo stains left deliberately on them( And I have three maids - Cheap pay) .

The baboon refuses to read to understand ; he would prefer to downplay others and their intelligence. Oburoni Fitafita stressed on facts not theory. The dum soh is a factual occurrence whose incessance may create incessant havocks. Common sense dictates that if you have twenty cars with faulty breaks the possibility of having continuous break failures in all the twenty cars is not mystical.It is common sense. Thats where we differ from baboons. Stop the dum soh dum soh and report back your findings Mr Common Sense
John 10 years ago

did Akyianu arrest anyone to come to such a conclusion/ if yes let's know them and what was done to them to prevent the recurrence.

did Akyianu arrest anyone to come to such a conclusion/ if yes let's know them and what was done to them to prevent the recurrence.
Sweet Mary 10 years ago

Believe it or not NPP party whose Presidential candidate believes that the Presidency is his ENTITLEMENT / BIRTHRIGHT is doing everything possible to realize his cherished dream of becoming the President of Kwame Nkrumah's Gh ...
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Believe it or not NPP party whose Presidential candidate believes that the Presidency is his ENTITLEMENT / BIRTHRIGHT is doing everything possible to realize his cherished dream of becoming the President of Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana. Dear readers, remember the dead bodies of women found all over Accra prior to the 2000 elections, Do you remember Atta Akyea, Hackman Owusu Agyemang, Malik Yakubu Alhassan, Irene Naa Torshie Addo and others of their infamous Court Injunction against the Electoral Commission (EC) on a statuary Holiday with the connivance of the discredited Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood? Do you also remember bombs exploded in July 1961, wrecking the front of Parliament House in Accra. Another explosion was recorded at the Flag Staff House soon after that, killing one person and maiming many others, as Nkrumah's Young Pioneers' Orchestra band was performing. In 1962, the Lucas House bombing was recorded in Accra when people were killed instantly with their intestines gushed out, DANQUAH-BUSIA (UP, PP ,PFP,NPP), did not only continued their brute politics and physical attack, they also heightened it to a more sophisticated level of bombardment and explosions, after their opposition to the Ghana's independence had been rejected by the Queen of England. Until the DANQUAH-BUSIA finally succeeded in sponsoring the violent overthrow of Nkrumah's CPP in 1966, and sending him and his family to the exile of his death, series of violence, in the form of bombing and killing were perpetrated against the CPP and her followers, including innocent people. This is what they have started, We don't need a rocket scientist to tell us who is behind the recent fire outbreaks in our markets and residences. I will plead to the Government to double up their investigations or else they will bring civil war. We must not treat this criminals (npp) with soft gloves.
Sam Bode 10 years ago

With 285 markets having illegal and sub-standard wiring how can the former Chief Fire Officer attribute the fire outbreaks to malicious people setting ablaze markets?

With 285 markets having illegal and sub-standard wiring how can the former Chief Fire Officer attribute the fire outbreaks to malicious people setting ablaze markets?
ADABRAKA 10 years ago

Who are the victims? How do you know the fire you are causing is affecting a supporter of NPP or NDC?

My friend who has just started his life with Ghs 4500. Saturday he bought wares of that worth, and sunday morning he wa ...
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Who are the victims? How do you know the fire you are causing is affecting a supporter of NPP or NDC?

My friend who has just started his life with Ghs 4500. Saturday he bought wares of that worth, and sunday morning he was told his shop was affected. He is an addict NPP. Making govt ungovernable to your own voters, who can die out of these silly things happening in the country.
Sweet Mary 10 years ago

This heartless NPP people does not care either NPP victim or NDC victim . One wonders, why has it been the same crude and primitive violent methods employed by the DANQUAH-BUSIA to achieve their political goals. Is it in thei ...
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This heartless NPP people does not care either NPP victim or NDC victim . One wonders, why has it been the same crude and primitive violent methods employed by the DANQUAH-BUSIA to achieve their political goals. Is it in their genes, by way of chromosomes, or acquired by inheritance , A particular tribe who does not care to use their own nephews or kids to make ''sikaduro'' Thats NPP Ashante party for you . HEARTLESS PEOPLE.
AFUAMANSA 10 years ago

THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT WILL SOON CATCH UP WITH THOSE BEHIND THIS HEARTLESS PRACTICE. THEY WILL SOON EAT THEIR OWN FLESH AND DRINK THEIR OWN BLOOD. THEY WILL PAY FOR THEIR MISDEEDS SOONER THAN THEY ENVISAGE. GOD BLESS OUR HOME ...
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THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT WILL SOON CATCH UP WITH THOSE BEHIND THIS HEARTLESS PRACTICE. THEY WILL SOON EAT THEIR OWN FLESH AND DRINK THEIR OWN BLOOD. THEY WILL PAY FOR THEIR MISDEEDS SOONER THAN THEY ENVISAGE. GOD BLESS OUR HOMELAND GHANA.
SALLY 10 years ago

NPP IS JUST BAD LOSER AND CAUSING FIRES

NPP IS JUST BAD LOSER AND CAUSING FIRES
Kwesi Enin 10 years ago

Is this ex-chief fireman insane? So, you want all firemen and women to start sleeping in the market? Pure stupidity.

Is this ex-chief fireman insane? So, you want all firemen and women to start sleeping in the market? Pure stupidity.
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Yaw Adu-Asare 10 years ago

Let us consider CCTVs at significant markets.

We have to watch those who have declared making governance difficult for Mahama; they may be responsible!

Let us consider CCTVs at significant markets.

We have to watch those who have declared making governance difficult for Mahama; they may be responsible!
Segoe 10 years ago

Since you fools, including your president know that NPP is behind the fires, why don't you arrest them? Or you are afraid of NPP people since you NDC folks are considered second-class citizens

Since you fools, including your president know that NPP is behind the fires, why don't you arrest them? Or you are afraid of NPP people since you NDC folks are considered second-class citizens
Sweet Mary 10 years ago

Let me remind you that NDC is created from the military and can be more violent than you this primitive people, Thanks to the late president Prof. Atta Mills for his good advice he gave to his people not to be violent before ...
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Let me remind you that NDC is created from the military and can be more violent than you this primitive people, Thanks to the late president Prof. Atta Mills for his good advice he gave to his people not to be violent before death took him away , else you will smell peppe, Npp cannot match Ndc when comes to violence ,
ruby 10 years ago

I think the gov't should investigate the ecg officials too, since they can put off lights at a particular place at the same time, they can also cut of some particular wires that can cause such fires that is if they want to ca ...
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I think the gov't should investigate the ecg officials too, since they can put off lights at a particular place at the same time, they can also cut of some particular wires that can cause such fires that is if they want to cause any havoc.They are likely to be used.
DIVINE 10 years ago

No body should worry he or her self of saying anything about this current firebrakes it is NPP people who are behind all this.

No body should worry he or her self of saying anything about this current firebrakes it is NPP people who are behind all this.
Sweet Mary 10 years ago

The day of reckoning is coming, just rest ashore, A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path of destruction , These NPP group of like-minded power hungry people refuse to accept fact that they are always on ...
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The day of reckoning is coming, just rest ashore, A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path of destruction , These NPP group of like-minded power hungry people refuse to accept fact that they are always on the wrong side of history. Ask every child in Ghana who led Ghana to achieve independence and you will have a coherent answer: Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah whom they force to exile before his death. Where were the Busias, the JB Danquah, etc.? These NPP folks are so intoxicated with the practice of chronic capitalism under the guise of ‘property owning democracy’ . We are now in a new world and would not give such chance to disrupt this government as you deed to the great Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah.
nana agyemang 10 years ago

Everything has it expiring date,so the electricity corpiration have to check the wires conected to verious houses.Im not talking about the high tension.but individual houses,All this wires must be change.The corse of this fir ...
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Everything has it expiring date,so the electricity corpiration have to check the wires conected to verious houses.Im not talking about the high tension.but individual houses,All this wires must be change.The corse of this fire dosent come from anyone.God has giving us wisdom, therfore lets use it,and stop pointing our hands to others.God dosent curse ghana as others were thinking.thank you.
Ogass 10 years ago

ndc members are behind these fires ,they are doing this toamard themselves the contracts to dupe the country again.

ndc members are behind these fires ,they are doing this toamard themselves the contracts to dupe the country again.

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