The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Chamber for Bulk Oil Distributors (CBOD), Senyo Hosi has blamed Thursday’s explosion at the Labadi gas station on government’s failure to hold accountable persons culpable for similar incidents that happened previously.
A gas explosion at Labadi on Thursday evening, killed 5 persons leaving 42 others with various degrees of injury. Reports suggest the absence of two bolts supposed to fasten the lid of a gas tanker at the Louis filling station resulted in leakages that eventually led to the explosion.
In an interview with GhanaWeb, Mr. Hosi said government has totally failed in ensuring that persons responsible for such errors are held answerable to the law. He recounted a similar incident on June 3 last year which killed about 150 people and left several others injured, indicating that the perpetrators were let off easily; the reason he says accounts for the laissez-faire attitude to safety within the industry.
“I think government has been totally lapsed, and I don’t think that they’ve been fair with the people. We never hold people accountable for lapses in safety and in their services at any point in time. June 3 happened over a year ago and nobody held the people responsible…..Nobody should go scot-free, everybody goes scot-free in this country, he stated.
He stated that despite the inevitable occurrence of such accidents, a greater part of the blame should be pushed on government and officials whose failure to enforce the law has cost people their very lives.
“How many people who died last year have been compensated?, you give people pure water and carry human beings and dump them in trucks as if they are trash...you see Ghanaians as statistics, Ghanaians are not statistics, ….you are killing people by your action….who do we hold people accountable, let them pay”, an avid Hosi said.
He challenged government to set the appropriate bodies to look into the actual cause of the explosion and hold the culprits answerable accordingly, to deter others in the industry from repeating such blunders.
Source: Ghanaweb.com
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But what the man said is the fact and I agree with him. What happened to those fuel stations that was demolish with the notion of being on water way by government. They are still there doing business, you guys should go around and check all the noise ayariga did about demolishing some fuel stations. Why dont you guys wabt him to blame government, just travel out of Ghana to developed countries and you would ask why u can not see fuel stations like in Ghana. Because the law works. Gas are either filled in cylinders already or layed underground for exchange not like in ghana. You guys should remove the politice and talk of reality and know that government has too much powers but they use it for things that would not benefit us.
the name of the town is LA not labadi
Senyo, you paa dis? Anyway you and your mother Dzifa Attivor should prepare wae. The NPP won't spare you
'Ye ne wo sere kwa'.Wo dee nya as3m hw3. W,adcfo nyinaa b3dan w'atanfo.
Eiii. Change has really come. Today Senyo is speaking out against the Govt???