{"id":279135,"date":"2016-12-23T13:05:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T13:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=279135"},"modified":"2016-12-23T13:05:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T13:05:31","slug":"empty-hydrants-due-to-trade-fairs-indebtedness-gwcl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/empty-hydrants-due-to-trade-fairs-indebtedness-gwcl\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty hydrants due to Trade Fair’s indebtedness – GWCL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the revelation that there was no water in the hydrants<\/a><\/strong><\/span> around the scene of the Labadi gas explosion, particularly the International Trade Fair Centre, Ghana Water Company Limited has indicated it had disconnected water supply to the area.<\/p>\n

The Head of Corporate Communications at the GWCL, Stanley Martey, explained that this was because the Trade Fair has not paid outstanding water bills.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Ghana International Trade Fair Centre, Accra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong>, Mr. Martey said the disconnection has \u201cbeen for more than a year because they haven\u2019t paid their bills. They have defaulted in payments for a very long time so we disconnected them.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also indicated that the Fire Service should have been well aware of the water situation because the Trade Fair had opted to sink a borehole instead of paying their outstanding bills.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of them paying their bills so that we would have them reconnected, they sunk a borehole in the Trade Fair. Now that the Trade Fair is using a borehole, is the fire service not aware that the borehole is not enough to combat fire anytime there is a fire outbreak?\u201d<\/p>\n

Stop the blame game<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. Martey also expressed his frustration at what he deemed as a blame game the Ghana Fire Service is indulging in.<\/p>\n

After the Fire Service’s Director of Public Affairs, Billy Anaglate, revealed that the absence of water<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the hydrants forced the Service to move all the way to Makola in Accra to refill the fire trucks to put the fire out, Mr. Martey said the Fire Service was only using GWCL as a soft target.<\/p>\n

\"Prince<\/a>
Prince Billy Anaglatey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt is not proper at this time to be laying blame and I think that it is high time the fire service stopped blaming the Ghana water company limited anytime they fail in their responsibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe softest area to blame is the Ghana Water Company limited and I think it is wrong. I think it is very bad. We have discussed this issue several times and the Fire Service is always quick to lay blame on water not being in the hydrant,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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