Managing Editor of the “Insight” newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr., has expressed his indignation at the decision by government to engage fire experts from the United States of America to ascertain the real causes of the fire out breaks in major markets in the country.Expressing ire at the decision, the senior journalist said it’s an insult to the country’s security apparatus wondering if local security agencies lack the requisite expertise to investigate the incident.According to him, ‘it’s a mark of total lack of confidence in the security system…It’s so embarrassing.”President Mahama on Thursday announced that government will seek foreign assistance by bringing down fire experts from the United States of America to ascertain the real causes of some devastating fire out breaks recently.President Mahama announced this when he visited the Makola Number Two market to ascertain the extent of damage of the market that was destroyed by flames a couple of days ago.According to him, though no evidence had proven that the fire outbreaks were orchestrated, the spate and timing of the outbreaks had gone beyond the ordinary and therefore needed additional support to get to the root cause of the fires.Over 10 fire outbreaks had been recorded in Accra and Kumasi since the beginning of the year, damaging property running into millions of Cedis.The trend has raised a lot of eyebrows, with politicians pointing accusing fingers at each other on various media networks.President Mahama’s visit to the destroyed market was to sympathise with the victims and to tell them what government was doing to ameliorate their plight.“…its very sad but God knows best. ...
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