The Minister for Interior, Alhaji Alhassan Malik Yakubu has expressed his readiness to resign his post if it is found out that the Accra Stadium tragedy was due to inaction or otherwise of his Ministry.
He said “ we of the NPP are not crazy about our jobs and I am ready to resign if anything can be attributed to me.” The Minister however remained optimistic that no wrongdoing would be traced to the doorsteps of his Ministry. Alhaji Yakubu told the Ghanaian Times that the government could not be blamed for the tragedy because it's been in office for only three months.
According to him, the government is now strategizing on equipping and training the police who had been “there for all these years without the necessary equipment.” Alhaji Yakubu described the mob action at Nima as very unfortunate since the government had instituted various measures to militate the effects of the tragedy.
He agreed that the traumatic way in which people died was very touching but said that peace and gentility, which are Ghana’s greatest assets, should not be sacrificed. He therefore called for restraint while measures are put in place to address the problems leading to the stampede.
Meanwhile the President has set up a Committee of Enquiry to investigate the disaster, which killed 126 soccer fans. The Committee is to present its findings to the President in a month.
