Metropolitan Chief Executive, Alfred Oko Vanderpuije, has appeared before the committee investigating the possible causes of the June 3 flood and Nkrumah GOIL Filling station fire disaster that claimed over 150 lives.
With its members drawn from the security services, a five-member committee has since started work, and Vanderpuije and some other persons are to appear before it..
Vanderpuije, whose office has been criticized for doing too little to improve the city’s sanitation problems told the committee, he had no information on the possible cause of the fire.
“As I sit here now, I do not know what caused the fire. Everything I have heard is based on hearsay and what people who say they were there saw. And as you have said, I do not want to give you anything that is based on hearsay.
“But what I know is that, over the years, we have not constructed the drains that we must construct. We have not de-silted the Odaw and the Korle Lagoon to allow massive flow of water into the ocean. And for that reason, we will always experience flooding in the Circle area.”
The committee is being chaired by retired supreme court judge Justice Isaac Douse.
By: Kasapafmonline.com/Ghana
