In the middle of a heavy flooding and rainstorm mid-night Wednesday, June 3 2015, an explosion at Kwame Nkrumah Circle Branch of the GOIL filling station in the capital Accra, killed at least 150 people that plunged the whole nation into an official three-day national mourning.
The streets of the capital from the accident scene was littered with bodies while some were found in drains taking authorities weeks to clear the remnants of the disaster.
The morgues were congested with bodies and hospital authorities were overwhelmed with casualties from Ghana’s worst ever disaster that happened on June 3.
What many Ghanaians have coined the Black Wednesday two years ago has imprints of sadness, and sorrow till date and likely to leave indelible scars in the minds of Ghanaians.
The heady days of the Circle disaster brought some dramatic works on Accra drains by City authorities but that was short-lived.
Two days after the terrible incident, the Ga-West municipal Assembly demolished some structures they claimed were on water ways while the Accra Metropolitan Assembly also dredged the Odo river and desilted some other drains.
But Interestingly, Accra is still contending with flooding after the disaster; as government, city authorities are still shelving the big resolutions charted to rid the capital of filth and flooding which contributed in no small measure to the disaster.
Ghanaians, with a day to usher June 3 are reminding themselves of the horrific past which stunned the population with this artistry of a bold image in front of the defunct GOIL filling station which reminds the public of the souls that were perished that day.
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