The Eastern Regional Disaster Management Committee has ordered that construction works on a filling station at Anglo Town, a suburb of Koforidua, be halted.<\/p>\n
This comes amid growing concerns over the safety of residents in the area.<\/p>\n
The filling station is being built close to a cluster of houses, and this the Regional Minister, Mrs. Mavis Ama Frimpong Gati, said posed serious threat to lives and property.<\/p>\n
In the event of an accident, innocent lives, she indicated, would be lost.<\/p>\n
Mrs. Gati, who chairs the committee, warned that anybody, who flouted the order would be arrested by the police and prosecuted.<\/p>\n
Some residents in the area had earlier demonstrated to express their anger over the siting of the project.<\/p>\n
They said they felt \u201cvery unsafe\u201d living close to a filling station.<\/p>\n
It may be recalled that the committee had requested the New Juaben Municipal Assembly to withdraw the building permit given to the owners of the station but this was largely ignored.<\/p>\n
Mr. Kwabena Okyere-Kusi, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), said the assembly was rendered impotent, as all the public institutions, required by law to sanction such projects, had \u201cokayed it\u201d.<\/p>\n
That, he said, made it extremely difficult for them to have acted any differently.<\/p>\n
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Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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