{"id":255912,"date":"2016-10-08T10:30:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T10:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=255912"},"modified":"2016-10-08T10:30:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T10:30:13","slug":"disaster-committee-stops-construction-of-fuel-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/10\/disaster-committee-stops-construction-of-fuel-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster committee stops construction of fuel station"},"content":{"rendered":"
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":"
The Eastern Regional Disaster Management Committee has ordered that construction works on a filling station at Anglo Town, a suburb of Koforidua, be halted. This comes amid growing concerns over the safety of residents in the area. The filling station is being built close to a cluster of houses, and this the Regional Minister, Mrs. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":122873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,11],"tags":[5413,12447,3,602],"yoast_head":"\n