{"id":10337,"date":"2025-03-21T16:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T16:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=10337"},"modified":"2025-03-21T16:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T16:23:06","slug":"mahama-directs-nadmo-to-assist-fire-victims-at-kumasi-central-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=10337","title":{"rendered":"Mahama directs NADMO to assist fire victims at Kumasi Central market"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President John Mahama has promised traders of Adum in Kumasi whose shops were gutted by fire on March 21, of government support.<\/strong><\/p>\n

President Mahama visited the area on Friday, March 21.<\/p>\n

Speaking after fire officers briefed him on what happened, the President said \u201cI have directed NADMO to assist affected traders, that is in the interim. We will also discuss with the Chief of staff together with the Ashanti Regional Minister to also support the traders.<\/p>\n

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Scores of shops at \u2018Blue Light\u2019,\u00a0 Adum in the Central Business Centre of Kumasi were gutted by fire Friday dawn.<\/p>\n

Some shop owners attempted to defy the ravaging fire to salvage wares. They threw caution to the wind despite warnings from the police and firefighters to stay away.<\/p>\n

A shop owner had to be forced out, and at a point a ladder was needed to evacuate him from danger.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe fire fighters have not done enough to kill this fire\u201d a distraught shop owner tells TV3\u2019s Evans-Nkum
\nThe cause of the fire remains unknown, but it appears as if an explosion was heard from some of the burning shops.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President John Mahama has promised traders of Adum in Kumasi whose shops were gutted by fire on March 21, of government support. President Mahama visited the area on Friday, March 21. Speaking after fire officers briefed him on what happened, the President said \u201cI have directed NADMO to assist affected traders, that is in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,41,18,386],"tags":[1635,3294],"class_list":["post-10337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fish-tv","category-general-news","category-politics","category-security","tag-john-dramani-mahama-2","tag-adum-kumasi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10339,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10337\/revisions\/10339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}