{"id":362039,"date":"2017-10-15T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=362039"},"modified":"2017-10-15T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T16:25:00","slug":"some-officials-shouldve-been-fired-for-atomic-explosion-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/some-officials-shouldve-been-fired-for-atomic-explosion-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Some officials should’ve been fired for Atomic explosion – Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"
Given the loss of lives in the Atomic Junction explosion, a legal practitioner, Rainer Akumperigya, believes there should have been some resignations or sackings coming from the institutions mandated by law with supervisory responsibility.<\/p>\n
“My guess is that, if you want to demonstrate how reprehensive morally this thing is, you would want to resign. That is one way of showing that you don\u2019t want this to happen,\u201d he said on The Big Issue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”jEjzBhZVPeKg4TAr5capSkdQTrHMZAG4″]Following the explosion<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) boss,\u00a0Hassan Tampuli, revealed that his outfit had identified some safety lapses<\/a><\/strong><\/span> at the MANSCO Liquefied Petroleum Gas station, where the explosion occurred, and had written to the station, among others, to rectify the lapses by September 4.<\/p>\n The NPA noted that, there was too much activity on the forecourt around the cylinder filling and auto gas area, and that there was a lack of safety signs and the absence of a waiting area for customers.<\/p>\n The Environmental Protection Agency admitted some culpability<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>but said some other agencies also had various roles to play in\u00a0regulating the operations of the station.<\/p>\n Given that the lapses as admitted by the NPA led to\u00a0seven deaths\u00a0with\u00a0132 injured, Mr. Akumperigya insisted that, the country appears to be shying away from the institutional failings that led to the disaster.<\/p>\n “If someone causes the death of another person, there should be something higher for the person to pay, and the least you can pay is to resign from your position or be sacked. I think that their position is already untenable to the extent that, these were existing factors prior to the fire, and that immediate causative factor was exactly what was diagnosed by the NPA.\u201d<\/p>\n Last chance for NPA Boss, others<\/strong><\/p>\n Also speaking on The Big Issue<\/strong>, the Executive Director of the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers, Duncan Amoah, noted that,\u00a0recent directives<\/a><\/strong><\/span> from the President to bolster the safety in LPG distribution were effectively a final chance to the\u00a0heads of organisations like the EPA, the NPA, and the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA).<\/p>\n