Fake Fire Service uniforms were certified by Acceptance Board – Sorogo

Chairman of the Ghana National Fire Service Council, Amadu Sorogo, has revealed that bails of camouflage uniforms procured for fire officers and found to be of low quality were certified by an Acceptance Board.

He said the quality of the uniforms was so bad and colours so different from those of the Ghana National Fire Service that the officers who approved them must be held to account.

Mr Sorogo was speaking on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show Wednesday in reaction to reports that bails of uniforms and tricycles procured by the Service had been locked up in the Service’s stores for years.

He said the Council had instituted an inquiry into how the uniforms were accepted in their state.

The traditional colours of the GNFS are red, black, and brown but the colours of the uniforms in question are green, white, red, black and brown, according to a Ghanaian Times report.

“A Board of Inquiry has been set up with the Deputy Chief Fire Officer, Phillip Arhin-Mensah who is the regional fire officer in charge of Ashanti Region as the chairman; they started sitting long ago; I think in the next two weeks they will be submitting their final report so that we can know exactly [what happened],” he said.

He stressed that the “Acceptance Board indicated that they inspected the uniforms and that they were neat and then they accepted it” but when they started to distribute them, it was detected that some of the uniforms were “faded, some were torn, some of them were not the colours and so quickly the directive was given that all the uniforms must be called back.”

The state had been sued by the supplier after the authorities refused to pay for the goods. The court entered judgment in her favour.