If the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were alive, and I do not doubt that He is, then he either does not know the route to the Ghana National Fire Service in Accra, or has conveniently forgotten the way there, or does not even bother that he has sons and daughters there too. As for Christ Jesus, he knows nothing about fire and therefore the GNFS is a non-starter. If God and Jesus can ignore the ordinary ranks at the GNFS, do you think President Kufuor can blink his big, wide eyes, or seductive anti-like eyes, or smell out anything at Atenga?s Palace in Accra? Big question.
The thing is, at Atenga?s Palace near the Headquarters of the Ghana Police Service, Cantonments, there is nothing going on; decadence, lack of spirit, and reason; accommodation; kululu; contamination; poor salaries; lack of vehicles and as for the guards on operational duties, bread and water is what the Chief Fire Officer has ordered for the poor men who perform their duties responsively, dedicatedly, with loyalty discipline, and humility.
The proximity of the miniature HQ of the GNGS to the imposing edifices of P.K. Acheampong?s House, the Police Headquarters, explains exactly why the Ghana National Fire Service has been reduced to something but nothing making the junior ranks there sit on anything but thorns.
The very nearness of the Ghana National Fire Service to the Police Headquarters exposes the weaknesses, of the Service (Fire) to the luxuriousness of the other Service (Police). Ghana is full of nonsense. Certainly.
Factotum: The operational officers or guards on 24-hour duty at the GNFS are a poor lot. Contrary to what happens at the Police Headquarters, those on Fire operational duties are poorly fed. The guards stand by for fire-call, any emergency fire-call, to which they have to respond rapidly and do a good job, as they have always done. But, with my own eyes, I have seen what they eat. They do not only look hungry, they ARE hungry! They are not only POORLY fed, they feed on bread which they buy with their own ?bread?. They buy the bread with their sketchy salary, and then enjoy it with water, aqua, H2O, unseasoned. As an inquisitive but investigative journalist, I saw them regale themselves with their bread and water. Oliver Twist could have done better.
Source: GhanaWeb
