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Central Furniture Fire: Management Calls For Urgent relocate Of A1 Bakery

The Managing Director of Central Furniture Works, Alhaji Mustapha Kwame Mahama has call on appropriate institutions to relocate the Chinese company A1 bakery from their current location.
According to the Managing Director of the company, last Friday’s fire which gutted the Central Furniture Works at Sakaman in Accra believes was as a results of ovens used by the A1 bakery.
Alhaji Mustapha Mahama made the call when the Member of Parliament for the area Hon. Nana Akua Owusu Okoto and his entourage visited the seen.
He said the amount of heat that comes from the A1 bakery comes direct to the machine shop of the company where some flammable substance are been kept.
Alhaji Mahama revealed that he always have sleepless night since the establishment of the  Chinese  company adding that he and the Chinese company had met on several occasions to address the issue amicably but yield no results.
This and many attempt compel him to offer his four plots of land at Tuba for the Chinese company to move from their current location to avoid any eventualities like fire outbreak due to the heat that comes directly to the workshop which the Chinese company refused.
Alhaji Mustapha Mahama appealed to the Accra Metropolitan Assemble and other institutions to as a matter of urgency come to the aid of the company to help relocate the Chinese company to prevent such occurrence again.
He further call on National Disaster Management Organization to support the company with disaster founds and further appealed to the government to support the company with tax exemption to help the company bounce back in full operation.
The company he said have employed over 50 workers and played a significant role in bridging the unemployment gap in the country.
However, the Managing Director of the company, Alhaji Mustapha Mahama has debunk a statement by the Acting Head of Public Relations of the Ghana National Fire Service, Mr. Ellis Robinson Okoe that 95 per cent of the items in the shop evacuated.
Mr. Okoe in an interview with the Ghanaweb stated that with the help of people around, the majority of the items in the shop were taken out before the fire got out of hand.
Mr. Okoe further stated that “so far we have been able to salvage about 95 percent of the cargo inside. So far what we have is just about a little. A mixed cargo made up of words, glues and materials used in the manufacturing of furniture”. A statement Alhaji Mahama described as false.
According to him what the firefighters succeeded in doing was to stop the fire from spreading to the nearby facilities including the A1 bakery and a fuel station but could not salvaged the furniture company.
He added that by the time the appropriate and effective response came, the fire had already destroyed most of the items within the premises.
Source: Thepressradio.com|Ghana|Mustapha Faisel

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