Our Condition In The Country Will Change If… - Nana Akomea On Apiate Explosion

STC Chief Executive Officer, Nana Akomea has called on the State authorities to apply the country's laws to save the citizens and society.

Addressing the tragic incident that occurred in Apiate at Bogoso killing more than dozens of the residents and over 170 sustaining various degrees of injuries, Nana Akomea opined that this should be a wake-up call.

He noted that obedience to the laws can keep tragic incidents as the Apiate explosion under considerable control.

His reason, he explained, is that there are laws governing the transportation of explosives, therefore believing the explosion could have been averted if the carrier of the explosives had complied with the laws.

Speaking to Nana Yaw Kesseh on Peace FM's ''Kokrokoo'', he asked the authorities to take a cue from the Inspector General of Police, Dr. George Dampare, who to him, is setting a good example.

''Ever since Dr. Dampare came, what has he been doing? He's applying the laws, that's all! He hasn't introduced anything new. So, you can feel that Ghanaians are crying for the laws to be obeyed. That's all!...All he's doing is just to apply the laws...but we wait for things to get messy resulting in a disaster before we quote the laws. So, what has happened, it should not be in vain'', he said.

He added that the Apiate explosion should serve as lessons to the nation saying ''the lesson is that, from today, if we will let the law about transport of explosives work, that will be a lasting testimony; a lasting legacy of this tragedy that's befallen Ghanaians at Apiate and not just that, let's try and make the laws work. The society will change''.