GNFS Sensitizes Market Women On Fire Safety To Commemorate 60th Anniversary.
The Central Regional Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has as part of the force’s 60 years of dedicated service to the country, embarked on a senstization exercise at the Abura market in Cape Coast in the Central Region to conscientize traders on fire safety.
The exercise which saw fire officers from the various fire stations in the Cape Coast Metropolis joined force together, equally comes as a safety mechanism geared towards the Cape Coast Festival slated to hold in the first week of September.
The Public Relations Officer for the Central Regional Fire Service, Divisional Officer lll (DO3) Abdul Wasiu Hudu after the fruitful exercise remarked the activity to be not the first or the last time such endeavour will be witnessed in the region.
According to him, Ghana’s economical engine revolves around trade, as both the Kotokuraba and Abura markets (all in Cape Coast) appear no new places to the region’s Fire Service department where there exist to be a constant engagement with its traders regarding fire safety who are always open to share their issues and to conform to whatever the service’s personnel directs them to do.
He added that it is the responsibility of the Fire Service to keep safe all that troops into the city of Cape Coast to celebrate this year’s Oguaa Fetu Afahye, hence the need to create the enabling awareness environment for all to remain sensitive on fire safety during the festive season.h
Divisional Officer ll (DO2) Mustapha Nyarko Hammer, the Central Regional Fire Safety Officer speaking to the Correspondent advised the populist to position their things in order, to avoid incurring any fire casualty before, during and after the 2023 Oguaa Fetu Afahye celebration.
Traders at the Abura market lolextended their heartfelt appreciation to the Central Regional Fire Service department over its awareness creation, disclosed to have learned a lot from the sensitization exercise and urged colleague market women to take heed to all that the fire personnel have schooled them on.
