Security agencies have started interrogating one Seth Kwesi Ofosu, whose cigarette stub is said to have caused the fire at the GOIL filling station near the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra that led to the death of over 150 people.
The move comes after the committee set up by government to investigate the national disaster presented its findings to government.
Hundreds of souls were perished in the disaster; the worst in Ghana’s history.
The committee at a news conference to present its findings stated that the “flooding of Kwame Nkrumah was the remote cause of the fire.”
“The displacement of fuel from the Goil Filling station at Kwame Nkrumah Circle was the intermediate cause.
“The dropping of the lit cigarette stub by Seth Kwesi Ofosu onto the floating fuel was the ultimate or immediate cause of the fire.”
Chairman of the committee Mr Justice Isaac Delali Douse noted “we are not in the position to determine his [Ofosu] actual status so we have handed him to the security agencies to investigate and arrive at a conclusion whether or not he intentionally caused arson.
“…Whether he was aware there was fuel on top of the flood waters or not is not clear to us so we have asked the security agencies to investigate properly and come to a conclusion on that matter”.
By: Kasapafmonline.com/Ghana
