Managing Partner at Bentsi Enchill, Letsa, and Ankomah, Ace Ankomah says it was unlikely that the activities of a khebab seller caused the gas explosion last Saturday at Atomic Junction near Madina in Accra on Saturday night.
In a Facebook post, Mr Ankomah said it was unlikely that the khebab seller would have gone ahead to light the match with the smell of gas in the atmosphere and people scrambling for their lives.
He added that it was also improbable that the same khebab seller would have had the luxury to pack-up all his ingredients , put out the fire and cover the charcoal grill before fleeing for his life.
He posted: "KhebabMan must be some kind of Superman with magical powers. Watch this:
"With a ‘visible’ gas leakage, with a gas smell all over the place, and with people being evacuated, he insists on lighting a fire. So he (1) puts charcoal in the grill, (2) adds paper to it, (3) pours kerosine, (4) takes out a box of matches or a lighter, and then (5) starts a fire.
"When his fire connected with the gas and the explosions started, he had time to (1) gather all of his meat, oil, onions and pepper mix and accoutrements, (2) put out his fire in the grill, (3) place an aluminum cover over the grill, (4) place stones on the cover, and then (5) flee for dear life.
He quipped that the khebab seller may have supernatural powers akin to that of Daenerys Targaryen, a television character in popular HBO television series Game of Thrones who owns fire-breathing dragons.
"I put it to you that the fire knew the man. Ghana, we have our own ‘Daenerys of the House Targaryen, The Unburnt’. Let’s check. He probably has dragons at home!".
The elusive khebab seller has been accused by the manager of the burnt gas station, Mr George Owusu and the host of Joy FM’s Super Morning Show, Kojo Yankson of ingiting the spark that resulted in the deadly explosion.
Responding to a question on how the explosion started, Mr Owusu said “the time I came in, one of them told me that it was the khebab guy who caused the fire”.
However, he added, “up till now, I have not seen the khebab guy’, pointing out that “but I know there was somebody doing the khebab business around”.
Mr Owusu denied allegations that prior to the explosion, the gas was leaking.
Mr Yankson in a now-viral video-post gave a blow-by-blow account of how the incident occurred although he was not present when it happened.
According to the Joy FM presenter, “There was a leak during a loading exercise from one of the tanks here in this compound. Gas was pluming up into the sky, blowing up very fast and everybody in the area noticed it…Members of staff at the gas station evacuated immediately and called the authorities. Within minutes, our chichinga stand operator decided to start work. In spite of the fact that there was escaping gas, he lit a flame under his Khebab and the flame shot up into the air and connected with the gas that was gathering in the air above the heads of all the people standing around…this flame connected with it[the gas] and set the entire sky above the people at this junction ablaze."
Source: Daily Graphic
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hmmmm,..... Kojo.... this Kojo .....no comment
Kojo Yankson " YOU KNOW NOTHING"
This is what happen if you think you know too much meanwhile you dont know anything. This Yankson guy has made some of us stopped listening to the Joy Super morning show. The earlier he is taken from that place the better it will be for the station. Now Starr FM has taken their shine.
Imagine Kojo Yankson was your brother and making mistakes at Joy Fm will you call for his head? Sometimes let's have some empathy for others. He is a humanbeing and can make mistakes. lets not be too quick to crucify him. He picked those information from the ground. Everybody who was present at that filing station at that time could be the cause of the fire including the khebab seller. We can not rule out anybody. However, we need experts to finish their investigations and tell us the real causes. Until that let us be patient and stop accusing people. I will also advice Kojo Yankson to becareful next time. Never to rush into baseless conclusions. If the investigations prove otherwise Kojo should come out and apologize to the Khebab seller.
I have said time without number that this Kojo guy is a total wáste of time! He knows NOTHING, but always making ugły noises on radio. He’s always so loud with his empty and infåntile theories, shouting above his colleagues to be heard, ever since he was employed at Joy Fm. After Joy news at 6, I switch to another station. I wonder why Kwesi Twum still maintains him on that seat.
This is a "Kyinkyinga journalist" who instead of using his head to reason, is only courting troubles for an innocent man. He has lost his reputation. Common sense should tell you that where the supposed "kyinkyinga" seller was, he could not have smelled of the gas or if he even did, did he know that by setting fire at where he was, could cause anything of that nature? What about those who fled upon realising that the valves were leaking? Kojo Yankah has lost it. Cheap Journalism.
Kojo Yankson!how can you jump to a conclusion like that. Why put the blame on a khebab seller, how? I still don't get it. once there is a leakage of gas and heat at the right temperature, there is an explosion. The heat can be from the tanker itself. Next time conduct a research before you make a move. The so called khebab seller must have been a superman. He is really Daenerys of the House Targaryen.
That guy dey rush too much. Thinks he knows everything. They get free cash from politicians and champion their agenda in the media. At least he now knows his weight and length. He cannot take Ghanaians for granted. If anything at all, he could sing to his paymasters for them to listen to him not us. Chinchinga journalist, you now know your size!
at times i wonder which kinds of brains are in some humans head. this anology of a kebab seller causing the fire is nonnsensical. it doesnt make sense. why do they want to put the blame on this poor kebab seller? instead of them admitting their errors and correcting them they are talking bullllllshhhit. you didnt do your work well and you have caused an explosion, you want to shift the blame on a kebab seller. masa are you correcct? noonnsensee
Surprising the way we think in this country. Gas is leaking through some faulty mechanism, that should have been checked and cross checked properly by someone before operation. Now a poor common khebab seller is in trouble.