GNFS To Be Ruthless With Entertainment Centre Owners

The Ghana National Fire Service is to begin prosecuting owners and operators of night clubs, hotels and entertainment centres, who fail to adhere to recommendations by the service on the provision of safety devices.

This is to ensure that fire fighting equipment are provided at vantage points of entertainment centres, convention grounds and the construction of emergency exists at those places in times of disasters.

The GNFS will then begin to issue fire certificates to owners of entertainment centres, before they are allowed operating permits.

An official at the fire service headquarters in Accra D.O. II Paa Kwesi Adutwum stated these in an interview with Peace FM. He said a new law, which was approved in May 2003 dubbed L.I. 1724, gives the service power to recommend the closure and prosecution of managers and owners of entertainment centres who fail to comply with this regulation.