Former Head of Monitoring Unit of the Forestry Commission, Charles Owusu, has charged the Police to hunt for the supplier of the explosives that caused a tragic explosion at Appiatse in the Bogoso District of the Western Region on Thursday.
According to a statement signed by the Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, about 59 injured people have been rescued from the rubble by the help of the Police Service, Fire Service, the Municipal Authority and residents.
“As at 17:00 hours, a total of seventeen (17) people have, sadly, been confirmed dead, and fifty-nine (59) injured persons had been rescued, bringing to seventy-six (76) the number of persons known, so far, to have been affected by the tragedy. Out of the fifty-nine (59) injured persons, forty-two (42) are receiving treatment and some in critical condition”, the statement indicated.
Charles Owusu has questioned why the supplier of the explosives is free when he must be behind bars being interrogated on why he allowed the explosives to be on a truck without putting any safety measures in place.
To him, ''the Ghana Police must look for the supplier, arrest and prosecute the person because we can't let these many people just lose their lives''.
''Did the person follow the safety measures or not? Has the person been arrested to aid investigations or because he is a big man, he hasn't been arrested? Or because he has money, so he can send explosion to move on the road without all these safety measures for people to die whereas he sits comfortably in his home eating fufu or banku or drinking tea while people have lost their children and family? We want to know where that person is at this very moment!'', he exclaimed.
He bemoaned the Ghana's system of imprisoning people who commit less crimes like stealing a goat while a person causes a whole community to be razed to the ground but isn't arrested yet.
''I'm not sure it's not only prophecy statements that you issue and those who have been invited with probing prophecies that someone has given to find out if it's against the law or not. Prophecy doesn't kill a person but we say it creates fear and panic. This is not creating fear and panic but rather human lives have been lost and we demand to hear from the Police today regarding their investigations'', he said on Peace FM's ''Kokrokoo'' Friday morning.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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I sometimes pity some commentators. Do you think the explosive left the magazine without documentation from the fire and arms division of the Ghana Police Service...These products are certified and given the green light for the product to be transported to it's destination. Besides, I'm told the explosive was being transported by a Minerals commission licenced and certified private transporter. Don't open your mouth and spew garbage bcos you have the medium to....
Explosives, fertilizers, petrol tanks natural gas these are explosives one should stay away from: They said the explosive truck driver came off the truck advise the people who were standing there taking pictures with phone to move away nobody listen and driver started running away from the his truck after which the explosion occur. [08:56, 1/21/2022] Albert Opoku: Ghanaians are naive if the driver told them to move away why stay at the danger zone, even gas tankers you people running to syphons gas that a little cigarette bud will set a blaze. Share Reply
Because of politics some ***barred word*** persons just opened their mouth and talk any how. At least he should know better, former head of monitoring forestry commission. Smh