Old Parliament House razed down by fire

Major sections of the Old Parliament House near the Art Centre and opposite the Kwame Nkrumah mausoleum, in Accra is has been destroyed by fire.

Myjoyonline.com’s Edwin Appiah who is on the ground says firefighters are still struggling to put out the blaze and stop it from spreading to other buildings but that is proving difficult.

Edwin reports that the buliding in which the Sole Commissioner, Justie Yaw Appau, is inquiring Judgement Debt Payments and other related matters has been completed burned.

Also the Finance, PR and Reseach departments of the Commissioner for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) were not spared.

The fire fighting efforts by personnel of the Fire Service was greatly hampered because cars parked in the compound of the building complex could not be moved.

Edwin reports that the keys to the cars were in one of the rooms that was on fire.

The fire which started at 3:45 am Thursday dawn destroyed many documents and everything in the affected buildings.