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Suspected market arsonist grabbed
Police have picked up an alleged arsonist in connection with the Kantamanto market fire outbreak.
Sources within the Ghana Police Service say the suspect is one Daniel Dah Kormlah aged 41.
According to sources, he was identified through police investigations into the Kantamanto fire incident.
Sources say police and other intelligence agencies have began arresting persons believed to be linked to recent arsons in some markets across the country .
A number of major markets including the Kaneshie market have been razed down by fire.
A joint team of Police and Intelligence operative’s left Accra on Thursday, December 17, 2020, in pursuit of the suspect, DGN Online gathered.
Police deny arrest of arsonist
The Accra Regional Police Command has denied that a man behind some market fires in some parts of Ghana has been arrested.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Effia Tenge, Head of Public Affairs Unit of the Command, told the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Monday.
She said somebody somewhere might have concocted the story and that the Police had never made such arrest.
A section of the media on Monday, December 21, reported that the Ghana Police Service had arrested an alleged arsonist behind the recent Kantamanto market fire.
They quoted an Accra Daily, which stated that the suspect, Daniel Dah Kormlah, aged 41, was identified through police investigations into the Kantamanto fire incident.
NDC behind market fires – John Boadu Listen to article
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has accused the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) of being behind the recent spate of market fires in the country.
Within the past few weeks, the Odawna market at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra, Kantamanto market in the Central Business District, Kaneshie market in Accra and Koforidua market have been burnt.
In a statement signed by the General Secretary of the NPP, the party said it has “noted with grave concerns and revulsion, the increasing spate of market fires being experienced across the country in recent times”.
NDC inciting supporters to set markets ablaze – John Boadu LISTEN
DEC 21, 2020
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has accused the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) of inciting its supporters to set some markets in Accra ablaze.
The NPP insists that the NDC is using this strategy to express their outrage about the outcome of the election.
“The NPP has noted with grave concerns and revulsion, the increasing spate of market fires being experienced across the country in recent times. The sheer rampancy and coincidence with which the markets are burning, coupled with the constant threats by some elements of the opposition to burn markets in order to drum home their concerns over the outcome of the 2020 general elections, leaves no lingering doubt that they are behind these arson attacks,” the NPP said in a statement signed by its General Secretary, John Boadu.