President John Dramani Mahama has instructed security services to be stationed at strategic points in major markets nationwide to address recent fire outbreaks.
Speaking to traders at Kantamanto Market, which was recently ravaged by fire, the President urged the Ghana National Fire Service to deploy fire tenders to these markets for quicker response to emergencies.
He also revealed ongoing plans to install CCTV cameras in the markets to enhance security and help prevent future incidents. "We had a meeting with the security heads today to see how we can tighten security around the major markets to prevent any such occurrences from happening. "In addition, we are asking the Ghana National Fire Service in the night, because these fires take place in the night and that is what gives us room for suspicions that there are people who are deliberately doing this. "In the daytime, you don't hear that there is a fire anywhere.
How the fire can decide that it is only in the night that it ignites and burns is beyond everybody's imagination.
