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Boy, 12, burns father’s 2,500 tubers of yam worth over Ghc 10,000

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A farmer identified as Adamu Adama Nansia, 39, is yet to come out of shock after his 12-year-old son burnt his 2,500 tubers of yam in Welembelle in the Sissala East Municipality of the Upper West Region.

The farmer disclosed that his son caused the fire while playing with a stick of matches at the farm close to the barn made of tarch.

The fire we gathered started with thick smoke and later sparked into flames and when the boy realized what his action had resulted into, he tried to douse the inferno by which time it was already late.

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The helpless boy was now screaming for help while the father who was at home rushed to the scene and watched in shock as the yams which he labored for months to cultivate and harvest burnt away.

In an interview, he is quoted to have said “I am thankful to God for my son’s life. The loss is estimated to be around over Ten Thousand Ghana Cedis and now my yams sold to feed my family including yam plants have all been burnt “.

He blamed poor market of yam due to the prices reason for keeping them at the barn with the hope of a shoot in prices in order to make some margin of profit.

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