We’ll replace old fire tenders by June – Fire Service PRO

The management of Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has given assurance that by June this year, all obsolete fire tenders in possession of the service would be replaced with some state-of-the-art fire tenders to bolster the activities of fire fighting in the country.

The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of GNFS, Assistant Chief Fire Officer Timothy Osafo Affum, gave this assurance while speaking on some of the challenges confronting the service in an interview with the host of the Ghana Yensom morning show, Odeyeeba Kofi Essuman on Accra 100.5 FM on Friday, January 20, 2023.

He added that all the needed agreements have been signed for the fire tenders to arrive in the country by June this year.

According to him, the specification had been given to the partner because fire tenders are not sold in the open markets like ordinary cars.

He added that the situation is so because some of the tenders have broken down and others are obsolete.

He added that this notion cannot be the reality because one fire tender can procure several vehicles for the police and military.

“So when tenders numbering about 100 are procured for the fire service it comes with a huge cost because tenders are quite expensive and country-specific.”