The Ghana Police Service has been asked to expedite probe into the fire outbreak that occurred in the Nhyinahin Catholic Senior High School.
The five-room dormitory block of Nhyinahin Catholic Senior High School was gutted by fire on Thursday 7th October 2021.
After the inferno, it was alleged that final year students of the school were behind the incident.
Speaking to the media, The Ashanti Regional Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) DO III Desmond Ackah, noted that they had a distress call at 9:30 pm that there was a fire outbreak at Nhyinahin Catholic Senior High School.
He added that his team quickly dispatched the Nhyinahin fire tender to the school, and it took them about five minutes to get there.
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“Upon arrival, we realized that fire has engulfed the boys’ dormitory block A and the fire was all over and spreading widely and very fast in all the six rooms in that particular block, and in order to prevent the it from the further spread, we defensively and offensively tackled the fire, and we brought it under control at exactly 11:27 pm, and then eventually succeeded in dousing the fire completely at exactly 12:23 pm,” He told press men.
In a new development, the Ghana Education Service is calling on the police to speed up with its investigation.
Speaking to the media, the Director General of the GES, Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa condemned the incident and called on the security services work as fast as they can to get the report for GES to act on it.
“Around 1st October we issued a directive to our regions and to our districts and to our schools about the need to ensure that we put in security measures. We work with the District regional security agencies to ensure that when the students finish school or about to finish school there would be any violence and destruction of school properties,” he told the media.
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