{"id":126139,"date":"2015-06-18T16:48:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T16:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=126139"},"modified":"2015-06-18T17:01:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T17:01:50","slug":"dumsor-vigil-caused-flood-fire-disaster-ga-traditional-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=126139","title":{"rendered":"Dumsor vigil caused flood, fire disaster \u2013 Ga Traditional Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ga Traditional Council has blamed the June 3 fire and flooding disaster on the Yvonne Nelson &#8211; organised #Dumsormuststop vigil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/06\/04\/over-96-bodies-recovered-from-goil-filling-station-fire\/#sthash.cRrSN6h1.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">150 people died from a fire<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, which razed the GOIL filling station at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra, amidst heavy rains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many factors have been adduced as the cause of the disaster including city authorities&#8217; negligence on enforcement of building regulations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DumsorMustStop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-118520\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DumsorMustStop.jpg\" alt=\"DumsorMustStop\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DumsorMustStop.jpg 675w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DumsorMustStop-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ga Traditional Council however is pointing accusing fingers at actress Yvonne Nelson and other celebrities who organised a well patronised vigil dubbed #Dumsormuststop vigil to express their displeasure about the worsening power crisis\u00a0in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was after the Ga Traditional Council had <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/05\/14\/ga-traditional-council-insists-on-no-dumsor-vigil\/#sthash.cZZpq1Zu.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">warned the celebrities to suspend the vigil<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, because of a ban on drumming and noise making in parts of Accra at the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The celebrities defied their warning after\u00a0they got the green light from the La Traditional Council who said the location of the vigil was rather in their jurisdiction &#8211; they had not started observing the ban yet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At a press conference held on Thursday,\u00a0President of the Council, Nii Dodoo Tackie said &#8220;That and many other forbiden acts&#8221; contributed to the disaster.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_116710\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116710\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/11165282_10152901688661167_1549247675888996662_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-116710 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/11165282_10152901688661167_1549247675888996662_n.jpg\" alt=\"Yvonne Nelson and some celebrities on their way to the vigil\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/11165282_10152901688661167_1549247675888996662_n.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/11165282_10152901688661167_1549247675888996662_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/11165282_10152901688661167_1549247675888996662_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/11165282_10152901688661167_1549247675888996662_n-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-116710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yvonne Nelson and some celebrities on their way to the vigil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nii Dodoo Tackie also listed a number of national disasters including May 9, which he said occurred because of the failure to respect the ban on drumming and noise making.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He insisted that supporters of the Accra Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko disrespected the gods by flouting the ban, hence the May 9 disaster which saw hundreds of Ghanaians killed at the Accra Sports stadium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ga Traditional Council has blamed the June 3 fire and flooding disaster on the Yvonne Nelson &#8211; organised #Dumsormuststop vigil. Over 150 people died from a fire, which razed the GOIL filling station at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra, amidst heavy rains. 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