Chief Executive Officer of the Authority, Hassan Tampuli, who made the revelation on the Citi Breakfast Show on Monday, said the letter was given to MANSCO through the Oil Marketing Company (OMC) that supplied it with LPG, Hills Oil.

[contextly_sidebar id=”1v4cdIJhcXTwYU0NyAMmlcqRhTwDlNdP”]“In the case of this particular station, we did the monitoring and inspection in April 2017, so it was part of Greater Accra inspection and monitoring exercise. We wrote to them a letter which was sent to them on 10^th of July. What the letter said was that, we’ve done monitoring and inspection of your station and we come to the realization that they fell short of a number of things and we catalogued them. One of the things we said was that, their forecourt was too busy of activities which includes taxi rank, food vendors among others. So we thought that, that was unsafe so they should put in place the necessary safety measures,” Mr. Tampuli told Bernard Avle on the Citi Breakfast Show.

Mr. Tampuli said his outfit also wrote a letter to six other filling stations that had questionable safety measures.

Reading excerpts of the letter sent across, the NPA boss said: “…the exercise revealed that 7 of the LPG filling gas stations at Adjei Kojo, Tema community 9, Ada Bedeku, Kobekrom, Ada Kasei, Atomic Junction and Oyibi did not fully satisfy the standards of operation prescribed by Authority…You are required to address the identified shortcomings by close of business Monday, 4^th September 2017, and notify the authority for an inspection of the seven LPG plants.”

He also said three demands were made to MANSCO.

“First of all, we said there was too much activity on the forecourt especially around the cylinder filling and auto gas area. Secondly, more safety signs should be provided at the facility and thirdly, customers should be prevented from assessing the filling area, a separate waiting area must be provided,” he said.

7 die in Atomic junction gas explosion

About seven people perished, and 132 sustained varied degrees of injury when the MANSCO gas station exploded.

The incident has however ignited pressure on supervisory state bodies to put the various filling stations in country under constant check to forestall such explosions in future.

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Ibrahim Mahama, a private business man has sued Mr. Antwi Boasiako for making defamatory comments against him.

But Mr. Mahama in his statement of claim purported that Mr. Bosiako made the comments at a People’s Forum at Obuasi in the Ashanti Region.

He is therefore demanding GHC 2 million cedis as damages for the defamatory statements made against him.

Mr. Mahama is also praying the court to “compel the defendant to publish a full and unqualified apology to the Plaintiff and retraction of the statements made in all the newspapers and tabloids in which the defamatory statements were repeated by their publication of the same.”

But speaking to Citi News, Mr. Adomako said, although his boss was at the said forum and made statements, they were not defamatory.

In his opinion, Mr. Boasiako comments were “innocuous and harmless”

“Whatever he said was not defamatory. When we are served and we get to the Court, we will explain everything,” he said.

“Ghanaians are not kids, we are all aware of things that have been going on under Mahama’s administration for the past six years,” he added.

Meanwhile the office of Mr. Boasiako has still not been served with the law suit filed by Ibrahim Mahama.

By: Marian Efe Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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