Management of GOIL fuel station has said it lost eight employees in Wednesday’s fire explosion at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”TIFNsMzxW6AnObILWHvPvfol6PrdLv77″]The company has also expressed its commitment to partner with other stakeholders to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n
“We are fully committed to partnering all stakeholders in all investigations surrounding this disaster,” GOIL noted in a statement.<\/p>\n
Scores of Ghanaians died while seeking shelter at the GOIL fuel station during the heavy downpour on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
About 150 people have so far been confirmed to have died in the incident.<\/p>\n
President John Mahama has declared three days of national mourning for the victims.<\/p>\n
GOIL, in a statement noted that the Board, Management and Staff “remain totally shocked and share in the pain of all families and friends who lost their lives.”<\/p>\n
It said the fateful day “goes down as a dark day in the annals of GOIL and Ghana.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile prominent political figures have called on government and other agencies to fix perennial floods.<\/p>\n
The Progressive People’s Party’s (PPP), Kwesi Ndoum on Thursday chastised government<\/a><\/strong><\/span> for not taking measures to fix the problem, saying “we have to take some measures to avoid this in the future. Often when these measures are drastic, you have a lot of sympathy and pressure not to take these measures. But I think the time has come for us to move houses out of the waterways. The public should understand that it is necessary to take such measures to save everybody else.”<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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