NPP accuses NDC of orchestrating market fires 22nd Dec 2020 | Source: Graphic Online
NPP General Secretary, John Boadu
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has accused the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) of inciting its members to set fire to some markets in Accra.
The NPP in a statement signed by its General Secretary, John Boadu said the opposition had resorted to arson to express their concerns over the outcome of the 2020 general 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 statement said.
Accra Mayor and National Fire Service contradict NADMO and NPP on causes of market fires
Government officials appear busy to hang the various fires in the market on the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
An arrest has been made in the Volta Region, in connection with the Kantamanto market fire outbreak in Accra about a week ago, and pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) newspapers, including Daily Guide, have in a coordinated manner reported that the alleged arsonist, is a supporter of the opposition NDC.
NPP activists and Deputy National Youth Authority boss, Akosua Manu, on Metro TV, on Monday, December 21, 2020, painstakingly pushed the arson on the NDC and directly accused the party s National Chairman, Samuel Ofusu-Ampofo, as the one behind the fires, insisting that the alleged audio recording which has him in a criminal trial, has elements of market burnings, murders and kidnapping among other criminal activities.
Graphic Online
BY: Donald Ato Dapatem
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The government is putting measures in place to ensure that markets in the country have proper management systems, including trained fire wardens and adequate security, to forestall fire outbreaks and other such disasters.
Apart from preventing the incessant fire outbreaks in markets, a proper system will also contain them when they do occur and also ensure that items are salvaged, in such circumstances, before the intervention of fire personnel.
The Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama, announced this after touring the Kaneshie Market Complex and the Odawna Market in Accra yesterday.
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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.
For instance, the NDC National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, is on record to have incited his party footsoldiers to undertake series of “overt and covert operations” including setting markets ablaze and embarking on armed robbery attacks in order to create fear and sense of insecurity in the country. Ofosu Ampofo is of course being prosecuted in court for this treasonable comment, and the court has established as a matter of fact that it was his voice in that leaked tape.