Ayawaso MP sets up relief support fund after Shiashie fire

Following the fire outbreak at Shiashie where scores of slum dwellers lost their entire properties, Member of Parliament for the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency Lydia Seyram Alhassan has set up a Relief Support Fund with a seed capital of Twenty Thousand Cedis.

The fund, according to the MP, is to help the victims of the fire which razed down over hundred structures at a place popularly called “Kiosk Estates” at Shiashie start life afresh after losing all their belongings.

Addressing the media after presenting food items, buckets and cash donations to the victims, Madam Lydia Alhassan stressed that she cannot take care of the victims alone but that she needs the support of well-meaning residents in the area.

She said, “looking at what I brought, it is not enough to take them out of the loss hence I appeal to other well-meaning people in the constituency to come to their aid.

“They should donate to the Relief Support Fund which has already yielded Twenty Thousand Cedis so that we can help them”.

The MP who had earlier arranged with the Presbyterian Church at Shiashie to provide temporal shelter for the victims also presented mattresses to serve as beddings for them.

The Fire

Residents of “Kiosk Estates” were rudely awoken from their sleep by a fire outbreak which eventually razed down the mostly wooden structured accomodation there leaving over 500 people homeless.

Though officials of the Ghana National Fire Service are yet to disclose the cause of the fire, some residents who spoke to Starr News blamed one of the residents whose name was only given as Aggie as being the source of the fire.

They claim the fire was started by a spark from am electrical socket from the accused person’s room but she was not available to respond to the allegations.

Source: Starrfm.com.gh