About 400 shops, traders’ belongings, and monies have been burnt after fire engulfed Odawna market near the Kwame Nkrumah interchange.
The fire, according to eyewitnesses started at about 1 am Wednesday, November 18, 2020.They also blamed the Ghana National Fire Service for being unresponsive when they reported the incident to them at dawn.
This, they said, could have saved some shops from being gutted by the fire.It is unclear what caused the fire outbreak but personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) and other security agencies have been deployed to the scene to control the fire.
