Fire At Kejetia

The Kejetia Market will be reopened for business tomorrow, Tuesday, 21 March 2023, after a fire gutted 33 shops last week. The reopening was disclosed by Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia when he visited the fire scene in the Ashanti region. The announcement of the reopening was met with loud cheers from the traders who had kicked against the management’s decision to close the facility for a week for a fire audit. Meanwhile, Dr Bawumia said he had been informed by officers from the Ghana National Fire Service and the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) that the fire was caused…

It has been confirmed by Hello FM's Samson Kwame Nyamekye that the over eight thousand shops at Kejetia market in Kumasi used a single meter since its completion in December 2018. Parts of the Kejetia market, one of the monumental projects in the Asanti regional capital, Kumasi, was engulfed in fire which burnt wares estimated at millions of Ghana Cedis. Market Shut Down The Kejetia market in Kumasi has been shut temporarily for an assessment of the extent of damage caused to the facility in Wednesday’s fire. The first and second floors of the market went in flames late Wednesday,…