Asokwa NADMO Provides Support To Fire Victims, Cautions Fuel Stations On Safety.
Officers and men from the Asokwa Municipal Office of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) led by Eric Akosah Addai last Thursday stormed offices of fuel stations and oil distributing outfits to inspect their premises.
The team embarked on the tour following a recent fire outbreak at a settlement at Kaase, a community within Asokwa where about hundred people have lost their livelihoods as a result of the inferno.
Unconfirmed reports suggested that the inferno was as a result of a leakage of fuel from one of these oil distributing stations whose sewage is close to the settlement.
The team in touring to ascertain the facts on the grounds also monitored the operations of these oil dealing companies and firms in the Asokwa Municipal Assembly.
CAUTION:
Addressing managers of the filling and oil dealing stations, Mr Akosah urged them to carry out periodic checks of their installations.
This, he noted would help them to know the state of their tanks as well as the safety conditions of the environment they operate.
Mr Akosah also reminded them of the human settlements around their installations, adding that they should ensure nothing is done to cause harm as had happened to those affected by the recent fire outbreak.
The Asokwa NADMO Director informed them of more of such visits so as to ensure that collectively they work to secure safe environments.
DONATION:
In a related development, settlers whose wares and livelihoods were gutted by the recent fire outbreak near the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport (BOST) site have been give some items to get back to normal life.
They also got some roofing sheets to re-construct their sleeping places that were destroyed in the rampaging fire.
Items distributed were bags of rice, cooking oil, gari, beans, sugar, rubber bowls and buckets as well as Two packets of roofing sheets and blankets.
On behalf of the settlers, Johnson Amuzu Amay thanked the NADMO team for the gesture.
The tour by the NADMO team forms part of the Department’s periodic monitoring regime
STORY BY MICHAEL OFOSU-AFRIYIE, KUMASI.