Government is expected to hold a crunch cabinet meeting over\u00a0Saturday’s\u00a0gas explosion that occurred at Atomic Junction in Accra.<\/p>\n
Some seven people have so far lost their lives,\u00a0with 132 others sustaining varied degrees of injury.<\/p>\n
Speaking during his tour in the Northern Region on Sunday, Nana Akufo-Addo said one of the main agenda for the meeting is to decide on the way forward for the prevention of such explosions.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”QiUkYcnyjj4xZM0CA2cKjxkioMmCcAl4″]\u201cCabinet will be meeting on Thursday, and I believe that out of that meeting, the country will know what our programme is \u2013 the comprehensive programme \u2013 that we intend to have to bring such incidents to a stop. The one that happened yesterday [Saturday], is one too many, we cannot afford more of that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He also called on the businesses in the fuel sector, to cooperate with government as it seeks to find a way of preventing future fuel station explosions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like everybody involved in the industry to recognize that we all have to make adjustments to be able to guarantee the safety and the security of our people so that these things do not happen again. I need the support and cooperation of the people of Ghana to make the policies that we will be bringing up succeed so that such incidents become a thing of the past and not of the future,\u201d Akufo-Addo added.<\/p>\n
Gas explosions: We won\u2019t tolerate resistance to reforms \u2013 Bawumia<\/strong><\/p>\n Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, who on Saturday joined President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on a three-day official tour of the Northern Region, was compelled to leave for Accra when the news broke out.<\/p>\n Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, speaking at the scene of the Saturday night explosion at Atomic Junction in Accra, said a policy is in the offing<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to deal with the safety\u00a0concerns once and for all.<\/p>\n He said the government will it put its foot down and turn a deaf ear to arguments against\u00a0proposed reforms particularly in the sale of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).<\/p>\n He has so far visited the site of the explosion, and has visited the 37 Military Hospital to commiserate with the victims.<\/p>\n He has promised that Government will foot the bills of all the injured persons. He however assured the populace that this time round, government will be stricter on safety measures by introducing a new policy in the petroleum retail sector to prevent such disasters.<\/p>\n The explosion occurred at the MANSCO gas station at Atomic Junction near the University of Ghana.<\/p>\n Residents were thrown into a state of pandemonium following the piercing sound of the explosion as well as the giant scary fireball that was formed in the sky.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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