Fire Investigators Not Needed-Kofi Jumah

Maxwell Kofi Jumah, Former MP For Asokwa

The former Member of Parliament for Asokwa in the Ashanti Region, Maxwell Kofi Jumah, has called on the government not to waste resources in bringing people from the US to investigate the recent fires in the country.
Mr Kofi Jumah believes there are competent security personnel in the country that can investigate the frequent fires.

He suggested that personnel at the Kwame University of Science and Technology (KNUST) can help reveal the causes of the infernos.

The former Mayor of Kumasi was speaking on Ark FM in Sunyani to react to the President's plans to bring people from the US to investigate the recent fires in the country.

Mr. Jumah also said the President was wrong to have said he suspected arson without waiting for investigations to end. “I don’t think he suspects any member of the NPP, but if he does then it's unfortunate because no member of the NPP will get involved in such things”, he added.

He called on the government to come out and say if their investigations revealed that the government was part of the fire outbreaks.

He also blasted the national television of constantly exposing its incompetence. According to him, the nation’s station cannot say they are losing huge sums of money because of the live telecast of the Supreme Court case.

“This is the right opportunity to get money, so I don’t know why they are complaining about losing revenue”, he added.

Mr. Jumah has therefore called on GTV to hand over the live telecast to the private stations in the country that can make money out of the live telecast because some of the private stations are ready to take the live telecast  and  make money out of it.

Meanwhile, traditionalist and staunch member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Nana Osei Yaw Nketiah popularly known as Dr. Asemfofro, has called on President Mahama to sack the Accra Metropolitan Assembly Boss, Alfred Oko Vanderpuye and some officials at the AMA because he believed they knew the causes of the fires.

“Until these people are sacked from the Assembly it will be a waste of time and money if the President goes to the US and bring investigators”, he added.

According to him, the cause of fires is within the NDC party who are there to sabotage the government and until they are sacked the cause of the fires will not be determined.