Abuja Market Residents In Danger -AMA Boss Blows Alarm
The Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Mrs. Elizabeth Sackey, has raised an alarm that residents living directly or close to high tension installations in the “Abuja market in the Greater Accra Region are in danger.
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
The Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Mrs. Elizabeth Sackey, has raised an alarm that residents living directly or close to high tension installations in the “Abuja market in the Greater Accra Region are in danger.
Following this development, Mrs. Sackey ordered the relocation of residents living close to high tension installations in the “Abuja Market.
The female Accra Mayor issued the directive following a fire outbreak that claimed two lives last Sunday in the “Abuja Market area in Accra.
During an inspection of the area together with the Chief Executive of the Korley Klottey Municipal Assembly, Mr. Nii Adjei Tawiah, and officers of the Ghana National Fire Service, Mrs. Sackey urged the residents to move from the area.
She stressed that it was now a security designated zone, adding that the area posed a danger because of the high tension installations.
“We all agree that by the Constitution and policy of the Electricity Company of Ghana, it is not advisable to have any structure built under high tension installations and not even to sell around them because it is dangerous to your health, so I want to plead with all of you that we don’t want to see any structure being put up out here or activity ongoing until the investigations are over,” she said.
An individual, who identified himself as Super scary the government to support the residents after the investigations were over.
“We are pleading that after investigations, the government should help us. We are not staying here because we want to challenge the government, but it is because we don’t have anywhere to go,” he said.
He added that most of the residents were victims of a similar incident that happened years ago which forced them to move there.
“We keep moving from one place to another, and now we have been here for about seven years,” he lamented.
He also said as law-abiding citizens who were present at the time of the incident, they would help the Fire Service with their investigations to ensure everything was successful.
Another trader in the neighborhood, Mr. Michael Moses, told journalists that he understood the concerns of the AMA chief executive about the dangers posed by living close to a high tension installation but said they were challenged by alternative accommodation.
“I have a family; a wife and three children. If we leave, where will we sleep?” he asked.
Another trader in the neighborhood, Mr. Michael Moses, told the journalists that he understood the concerns of the AMA chief executive about the dangers posed by living close to a high tension installation but said they were challenged by alternative accommodation.
“I have a family; a wife and three children. If we leave, where will we sleep?” he asked.
