The Ghana National Fire Service has determined that the merchant was using gas to cook in a store when the Kumasi Kejetia Market fire broke out last week.
The culinary establishment was close to stores that supplied turpentine, gunpowder, and other combustibles.
The investigators have determined that this is what caused explosions in the market when the fire first started.
When Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the vice president, went to the market on Monday to personally assess the harm done to the new market, he made this information public.
"We went to the scene of the flames, and 33 stores were completely destroyed. I've enquired as to why. Investigations, according to what I've been informed, appear to indicate that someone was cooking in his business. The fire began there, according to Dr. Bawumia.
Turpentine, gunpowder, and other combustibles that caused market explosions are also sold in other nearby businesses, he said.
Reopening on Tuesday in areas unaffected by the fire
Today in Kumasi, it was reported that the portions of the Kejetia Market that were unaffected by the fire will return to business on Tuesday, March 21.
The traders objected when the authorities first wanted to close the entire market for a week to conduct an inquiry into the fire breakout.
The officials wanted to conduct a comprehensive examination of the entire market because they believed there was an electrical problem.
They had originally planned to shut down the market completely for a week, but after determining the source and the location of the fire, they changed their minds.
Electrical problem not
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia announced that the Ghana National Fire Service was able to determine that the incident was not caused by an electrical problem.
This entails that locations unaffected by the fire can resume normal business operations while the afflicted area is still under investigation.
Fire at Kejetia market
A portion of the Kejetia Market, one of Kumasi's landmark constructions, was destroyed by fire last Wednesday (March 15), destroying goods worth millions of Ghana cedis.
No one was hurt, although a few persons who had collapsed from asphyxia were sent to the hospital.
At about 4 p.m., a shop on the second floor of the market caught fire, spreading to the third.
When dense, black smoke from the burning stores in the market rose into the late-afternoon sky, several vendors wept hysterically.
There were perhaps 50 stores impacted in all, 33 of which were entirely burned down.
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