The Ashanti Regional Public Relations Officer of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), DO III Peter Addai, has advised farmers to engage the services of Fire Volunteers in the farming communities before preparing their lands with fire. He made this known in an interview with OTEC NEWS in Kumasi on Sunday, January 8, 2023.
“The GNFS has consistently urged our gallant farmers to make it a point and involve local Fire Volunteers to help them prepare their old and new farm lands to avoid setting bushfires to destroy environment and properties”, he said.
DO III Addai however expressed worry about the negative attitudes of some individuals which constantly endanger the environment through indiscriminate bush burning and intimated that these negative tendencies caused extensive damages to farm produce, plantations, economic trees and fauna species in the last dry season. He added that, there was the need for Palm wine tappers, Charcoal Burners, Hunters, Smokers and all Farmers to be careful with the use of naked fire to prevent the destruction of the environment, lives and properties this dry season.
The Ashanti Regional Public Relations Officer urged farmers to remain vigilant as the dry season intensifies and increases the risk of fires. He then used the occasion to appeal to all to support the GNFS in its quest to reducing fire outbreaks in the country.
Source: OTEC NEWS Ghana/otecfmghana.com/JacobAgyenimBoateng
