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Another fire outbreak: 70-yr-old woman, 2 others burnt

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  • Zoobie-Zoobie 10 years ago

    What is the government doing? Nothing!!!

  • SARPONG ILLITERACY GURU 10 years ago

    Your comment is very irresponsible as government has no hand in residential fires. It is up those occupants and the owner.

  • JDM 10 years ago

    WITH THIS GOVT IN POWER, IT APPEARS NOTHING IS GOING TO WORK FOR GHANA. MAHAMA SHAME.

  • kabokabo 10 years ago

    can we depend on this eye witness accounts? Proper investigation must be done than this so called EXPLOSION.
    May their souls rest in perfect peace. I s there any bank accounts we can channel funds to support the greiving fa ...
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  • SON-of-MAN 10 years ago

    Mahama and his NDC government electricity dum-sor dom-sor deliberate approach in Ghana is the cause of all fire outbreaks in the country.

  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

    TOO MUCH FIRE IN GHANA, WHY?

  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

    FAGGOT, STOP USING MY SHIT. GO AND GET UR OWN NAME, FOOL. DO U LACK CONFIDENCE IN YOURSELF AS A GOD CREATED HUMAN BEING?

    The outbreak is suspected to have been sparked by an electrical problem.

    Eyewitnesses told XYZ New ...
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  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

    YOU ARE A CHAMELEON USING MY ID, HAHAHAHAHA.

  • KOLA, LONDON PROPER 10 years ago

    GOLDEN STOLE

    Do you live in a shark? Did you not noticed Kronfour Kuffour built a golden stole as a Presidential Palace? Where did you schooled?

  • EEEEEEEHHHHHHUUUUUOOOOO!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    WE NEED EXPERTS FROM USA TO INVESTIGATE THIS FIRE WHICH HAS CLAIMED 3 LIFES

  • EEEEEEEHHHHHHUUUUUOOOOO!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    THE SAME SEX MARRIAGE WHICH THIS GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO IMPOSE ON THE COUNTRY IS TURNING GHANA INTO SODOM AND GOMORRAH. THERE IS TOO MUCH SIN IN THIS COUNTRY.SUCH AS, SEX FOR SALE ON THE STREETS, THE RICH STEALING FROM THE P ...
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  • ASHANTIS ARE UGLIEST GHANAIANS=TRUE 10 years ago

    WHY DO YOU UGLY ASHANTIS SO QUICK IN POINTING FINGERS AT THE PRESIDENT SOMETHING YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE MORE WHEN K4 HIJACKED THE PROSPECTS OF THIS COUNTRY.STUPID UGLY PEOPLE

  • GHANABA 1 10 years ago

    Any idiot can contribute silly comments here.which tribe do you bastard belongs to? I bet you,A dead and rotten Ashanti is better off than your whole household,i am not talking about tribe even

  • ASIEDU NKETIA 10 years ago

    Agya ATTA is punishing Mahani Mahama for killing him and inheriting him. The last result will be Mahamas death.

  • BE BOLD 10 years ago

    Please do not waste time to respond to comments like that. It emboldens the idiot. By the way thanks for not insulting all his tribe like he did. That in itself send a positive message

  • chris 10 years ago

    why every time someone post bad judgement,a nobody like this looser always jump on Ashanti people. Look in the mirror and ask yourself what you see. We all look alike so if you don't have anything to say,why not just read the ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    God punish you when he born you black,same color as feces,crap,shit,turds,scat!

  • GHANABA 1 10 years ago

    Sarpong, i think u are rather irresponsible.Power on/off is the government responsibility and not an innocent individual who is paying a full service but receives death in return.I think you read the article well.It has somet ...
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  • SARPONG ILLITERACY GURU 10 years ago

    The cause of the Fire wasn't due to power outages rather due to a pressing iron which exploded.

    Did the Government supply the pressing iron? And why was the pressing iron plugged in? These are pressing issues which need di ...
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  • Romeo Anokye Jnr 10 years ago

    because we the people we do pay our electrical bill so it's left with the government to be faithful and stop spending the money because they are spend rift that is why we needed a mas like nana addo to lead the state but not ...
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  • HASSAN RASTA GERMANY 10 years ago

    THEY ARE BEHIND IT.

  • Romeo Anokye Jnr 10 years ago

    if he was to be ur father will you call him dwarf fool

  • DAN 10 years ago

    sleep with 1 eye open the Nazi Skinheads are ready to kill you Nigger ass for being black..They don't care if you clean the presidents toilet and anus..You are guilty of being black!

  • Aj-usa 10 years ago

    Ghanaians should put aside the political woes of blame games.be'cos the fire out breaks are something the whole nation need to take it serious.And to my opinion I can say the President should watch the illegal foreigners mini ...
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  • GHANABA 1 10 years ago

    What will the Ndc say about this fire outbreak? Is it the work of NPP in their own stronghold? Nonsense talk from nonsense Government.The nation is cursed and something specific needs to be done and not to politicised any bul ...
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  • YOUNG LOVE 10 years ago

    These fires are due to the many power interruptions in Ghana. They happen because of power surges to electrical appliances and other electricity uses. It is not NPP and if the NDC are thinking this is the work of the NPP they ...
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  • Ali Konkomba 10 years ago

    yes of course it is the work of NPP.
    any fire anywhere it is en pee pe.
    where next NPP?

  • NANA O!! MOTHER 10 years ago

    Have ghanaians forgotten when a fetishist priest came out and said NDC used him to seek powers from india to help NDC but failed to pay him on Adom Fm .But when he contact them they insulted him on Adom Fm morning show. Ther ...
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  • seth 10 years ago

    All cos of the ON AND OFF not forgeting the TENSION(HIGH&LOW) ON POWER (ELECTRICITY)

  • awuku 10 years ago

    May their Soul rest in perfect peace

  • zebrim 10 years ago

    whom will this irresponsibly government blame again.They will always find ways to run away from their responsibilities.Shame on to the government and those who voted for them.

  • A concerned citizen 10 years ago

    I suspect there are so many illegal connections in most of the market places and many other places too. The perpetrators must be prosecuted at the courts.

  • taste 10 years ago

    oh god!why all these fires!!!!!

  • COMMON SENSE 10 years ago

    IF COMMON SENSE SHOULD AVAIL ITSELF THEN THE DOMSO DOMSO ELECTRICITY COMPANY OF GHANA SHOULD BE CHARGED FOR CAUSING MISERY TO THE LIVES OF THE VICTIMS.

  • ABEZE 10 years ago

    can someone tells me what is going on in ghana, ooooooooooooh fire oooooooooh

  • owusu boateng, NPP, Italy 10 years ago

    Please can somebody ask ndc chairman dr useless kwabena agyei if npp is also behind this one, lets try and find solution to this fire outbreaks recently and stop nonsense statements

  • Sammy 10 years ago

    TEACH THE HOUSEHOLD !! HOW TO USE
    ELETRICAL EQUIPMENTS PLEASE!!

  • kweku anaman 10 years ago

    sammy u are right may GOD bless u.

  • takoradi 10 years ago

    please when anything happing in ashanti region people allways happy but not only aashantis leave in there there is alot other triebs so please we should stop to acuse always ashantis.they are very very good i leave there befo ...
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  • OSEI STEPHEN,NORWAY 10 years ago

    HEI PEOPLE MOST OF THE FIRE PROBLEM COMES FROM THE LIGHT OFF,TOO MUCH LIGHT OFF ,ALSO PEOPLE DONT KNOW WHAT IS PRESIDENT,PRESIDENT IS THERE FOR EVERY PROBLEM IN THE COUNTRY,WHY TOO MUCH LIGHT OFF,EVERY THING HAPPEN IN AMERICA ...
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  • EN 10 years ago

    A WHOLE COUNTRY LIKE GHANA'S OFFICIAL WEBSITE CAN'T EVEN PRODUCE AN ACTUAL PICTURE OF THE STORY. LORD HAVE MERCY ON US ALL.

  • TDA 10 years ago

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  • fact 10 years ago

    there must be a law to check unqualified electricians inspection and testing must be done before electricity is supplied to any house to make sure the wiring is than properly

  • TAKYI 10 years ago

    this as anything 2 do with the government we as a ghanaian must know the used of electricity in our home some of as will live the house without checking if is electricians are off,so we must check our home before living the h ...
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  • New Ekuma 10 years ago

    Electrical fault indeed. This is field equalization. 7 markets burnt in Accra in 2 months, so they shd burn some where in Kumasi to say it is not arsonists . Nonsense.

    Shame unto the NPP. They can burn the sea. That dwarf ...
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  • Whatever 10 years ago

    This fire in Kumasi household appears to accidental and shouldn't be compared with the deliberate ones that has been occurring in Markets in Accra. The markets ones are pure arson

  • Lucy 10 years ago

    God saves our country Ghana

  • Lawyer Addision 10 years ago

    These foolish monkey eaters?

  • L O Owusu 10 years ago

    what going on in GHANA

  • Kwesi 10 years ago

    Is only fools who POLITICIZE everything around them.

  • Shamu 10 years ago

    Whenever NDC are in power something will be happening. Why NPP? When Kwame Nkrumah was in power, there was bombings, when Rawlings was in power there was killing of innocent civilians. When Mills was in power, there burning o ...
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  • Kwesi 10 years ago

    someone can kill people and set the house on fire and say the electric iron exploded, how? is the iron gas filled or what. more needs to go in to find the real course of the fire. Spot politicizing it

  • Lawyer Addision 10 years ago

    Where is nana ado anyway?

  • Romeo Anokye Jnr 10 years ago

    I think the government should conduct an investigation on all the fires in the country to see the cost of the fires in Ghana and the police should be vigilant on the civilians thank you

  • Oyarifa 10 years ago

    So someone got up early to iron their clothing to get ready for church or work. Then the iron or faulty wiring to the iron triggers the fire. Very possible the person who was ironing was electrocuted or too injured to raise a ...
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  • MotherLove 10 years ago

    STOP BUYING DEFECTIVE PRODUCTS FROM CHINA. GOODS SPECIFICALLY TO AFRICA ARE CHEAPLY MADE. THOSE MADE FOR EUROPE AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE MADE BE FOLLOWING THEIR RULES....ALL GHANA IS GOING TO BURN DOWN AND THE CHINESE ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Ghana is cursed. The easy way out is to blame the fires on NPP without any evidence. A failed country!

  • Aidiward Artiamo 10 years ago

    where from all this fire fire

  • k the h 10 years ago

    Made in China pressing iron

  • K.M. BONSU 10 years ago

    I THINK DE IMPRESSION GIVEN AS IF DE MAKOLA NO.2 WAS DE PLACE THAT GOT BURNT MAKES IT DIFFICULT FOR ONE TO KNOW EXACTLY DE ACTUAL LOCATION OF DE INCIDENT SO THOSE REPORTING SHD BE CAREFULL.

  • ALEX ARHIN 10 years ago

    GOVERNMENT OF GHANA HAS TO INPLIMENT AN EDUCATION PROGRAM TO THE MARKET WOMEN ON FIRE PREVENTION SO AS TO ELIMINATE THE CAUSE OF FIRE OUT-BREAK.

  • NTAMKESE @ KWASI TAFRITWE 10 years ago

    STUPID AND VISIONLESS GOVT ITS ABOUT TIME JOHN DUMSO MAHAMA AND HIS NONE PERFORMING NDC WAKE UP AND SAVE LIFE AND PROPERTY!

  • ADABRAKA 10 years ago

    Cheap China goods will burn Gh, which the govt should curtail the menace. These cheap electric goods, most do not comform to standard. When ECG power passes thru, disaster happens.

    Before we know, all Ghanaians will burn ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    You can bet both low voltage and voltage surges(high voltage)..Plus people that left gadget turn own like clothes irons and elctric ranges.. can start heating again when power resumes and burn clothers and food cause fire..Bu ...
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  • George 10 years ago

    May the soul of my grand mother rest in peace and sister too rest in peace big brother the same to u

  • IRON MAN 10 years ago

    May their souls rest in perfect peace
    the rest of the family must be strong
    and stand firm in Christ, with strong
    prayers, God is in control.

  • africans^ wise up 10 years ago

    rawlings party is a curse to ghana.1983 there were severe fire outbrakes resulting in food shortages,when atta mills came even the forieng ministry was burnt to ashes now mahama and fire fire fire.when are ghanaians going to ...
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  • lydia.usa 10 years ago

    all they know is blaming people for the fire out break.the govern have to
    educate ghanaians about fire hazards

  • ********** 10 years ago

    It is highly probable that the energy crisis in the country is causing all these fire outbreaks. Yet instead of resolving the situation to end these outbreaks the opposition is being suspected of arson.
    If there is no power ...
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  • BE BOLD 10 years ago

    Pointing fingers is the easiest way to divert attention from pressing issues for the government!

  • abena 10 years ago

    This is very sad,may thier souls rest in perfect pease.

  • CONCERN CITIZEN 10 years ago

    We need Burning Spear band as soon as possible to redeem us from these fire business.

  • GOD SENT 10 years ago

    The G'ment should be sued for all the fire ourbreaks.. All these boiled dowm from Ghana' electricity problems.

  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFULL 10 years ago

    Why why why.oh god Blakka

  • anita 10 years ago

    May their souls rest in peace

  • Abena 10 years ago

    Lighting system in Nzema is even very bad they on and off it in every minute. The worse area in Kumasi. We don't know when we have light and when is off. almost every munite the put it off and on.