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The Bureau of Public Safety has called on the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to provide sufficient oversight over the buzzing Kantamanto market. The AMA has granted victims of the Kantamanto market inferno permission to sell on the disputed land, albeit temporarily. The entire market was razed down by fire about three weeks ago destroying the wares and shops of the traders who occupied the place. The AMA after the incident pledged to re-build the market into a modern one but the traders vehemently refused citing possibilities of them losing their original spots in the market. The Ministry of Transport also indicated that it will turn the burnt market into a railway terminal; the initial purpose for which the land was acquired by government. In an interview with Citi News, the Executive Director of the Bureau, Davidson Akwada advised that �it is important for the AMA to regulate the people who are going to provide services in terms of electricity supply.� He indicated that when all of these measures are put in place, there will not be a repeat of the fire disaster. �It is important that the AMA provides one site plan to provide an efficient oversight responsibility of what they call temporary structure and ensure that those definitions are adhered to otherwise we may just come back to the same problem.�