KROFROM BURNT GAS STATION DID NOT HAVE FIRE SAFETY CERTIFICATE

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It is emerging that the gas filling station at New Tafo that caught fire last Tuesday had
 no fire safety permit to operate, contrary to the laws of Ghana. Additionally, there are speculations that the station did not have the Environmental Permit from the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. 

An impeccable source close to the Fire Service gave these hints to Ashanti Today but would not be identified. Should these pieces of information be confirmed, it would mean that the owner, said to be a woman, was operating an illegal business and could therefore be liable for the appropriate legal consequences, should the authorities take up the matter for prosecution. 

The Ghana National Fire Service is yet to make public its findings of investigation to unravel the cause of last Tuesday’s explosion at the gas filling station but rumours are rife that the inferno was caused by a spark at the point of repairs on one of the gas tankers at the station that had developed a leakage and was being worked on by artisans to seal it. 

Following the explosion, 10 persons were immediately known to have suffered various degrees of burns which later increased to 12 three of which cases were critical leading to the admission of the victims at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. 

But, the Fire Service confirmed on Wednesday, Nov. 21, that two of them could not make it with the remaining victim still on admission at the same hospital. Five others who sustained relatively minor injuries and admitted at the Tafo Government Hospital are said to be responding positively to medical treatment with some of them already discharged.

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