Minister of Interior, Hon. Mubarak Muntaka, has called on colleague minister of state, Hon. Sam Nartey George to strengthen measures to track down persons who prank the Ghana National Fire Service.
Ghana recorded 3201 fire incidents, according to Hon. Muntaka, in the first five months of 2025.
2226 of these fire incidents were recorded in the first quarter of 2025 alone.
It is worrying, therefore to note that the Ghana Fire Service received 131,862 prank calls or false alarm calls in the first quarter alone.
This indicates that an ‘average of over 40,000 prank calls every month’ in the first quarter of 2025.
Hon. Muntaka in his address at the graduation of Fire Cadet Intake XXIV, on Friday 28th June, 2025 in Accra, called on all to intensify education against raising false alarm that it may come with consequences.
“This is something which is very alarming and all of us need to make sure that we educate our citizens.
“Whether in the church, in the mosque, in the school, or in the homes so that people will know that when you keep calling wolf, wolf, wolf when there is no wolf, the day real wolf will come you may be blaming the Fire Service for nothing” Hon. Muntak said.
The Minister then called on the Minister of Communication and Digitilisation, Sam George to ensure that prank calls can be tracked and pranksters brought to book;
“I want to call to take this opportunity to call on my colleague the Minister for Communication and Digitilisation to ensure that we are able to track and bring such perpetrators to book”.
Hon. Muntaka added that: “such false calls do not only waste our time and energy, but it denies rapid response when incidents happen elsewhere”.
Hon. Muntaka went on to commend the leadership of the Ghana National Fire Service for the intensified public education which has seen a reduction in prank calls from 192,545 to 131,862 during the same periods in 2024 and 2025 respectively.
