Government Assurance postpones public hearing to Wednesday due to fire outbreak

August 27, 2024

The public hearing of Government Assurance Committee on Tuesday, August 27, 2024, had to be halted and pushed to Wednesday, August 28, 2024, due to a thick smoke that engulfed the first floor of Job 600.

Officials of the Ministry of Works and Housing were in Committee room 1&2, and administration block when the fire alarms went off.

The Committee could not have its public hearing. Despite an initial communications to the media that the hearing will come on later in the day, a later communication had it that it had been pushed to Wednesday.

It took personnel from the Ghana Fire Serve stationed in parliament and re-enforcement team almost an hour to put the smoke and fire under control.

Meanwhile, investigation is underway to ascertain the cause of the fire.

Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com