{"id":177844,"date":"2015-12-30T11:17:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T11:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=177844"},"modified":"2015-12-30T11:50:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T11:50:53","slug":"ban-on-firecrackers-still-in-force-police177844","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/12\/ban-on-firecrackers-still-in-force-police177844\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban on firecrackers still in force – Police"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Ghana Police Service has reiterated that the ban on the use and possession of firecrackers is still force.<\/p>\n
The Executive Instrument (E.I) 21 of 1999, prohibits the manufacture, possession or carriage of any explosives, including firecrackers.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”FkA311Y8aNQCkHBqMYjM6DnDWvEGSQ29″]An apparent rise in the use of firecrackers in recent years, particularly this Christmas season, has led to suggestions that the stance of the police on the use of firecrackers \u00a0may have been relaxed.<\/p>\n
There have also been claims that the police have failed to enforce the ban.<\/p>\n
However, the police have dismissed these assertions, stating that the ban still holds\u00a0and that they are working hard to ensure it is observed.<\/p>\n
“The warning against the use of firecrackers is still in force and the police is also enforcing it. The fact that you hear some people still firing it doesn\u2019t mean that the warning has been thrown overboard. Wherever there are human beings and there are laws, you\u2019ll get people who\u2019ll flout them. The police are looking for those who are flouting the laws,”\u00a0the Director of Public Affairs at the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent Cephas Arthur told Citi News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n