The Ghana National Fire Service is warning the public against the activities of individuals posing as personnel of the national service rendering unauthorized services for money.

Officials observe these supposed fire service persons extort money from unexpected clients and issue fake fire certificates to them.

Ashanti Regional Fire Commander, Semekor Fiadzo says “some people are going round issuing fake certificates indicating that it is coming from fire services.”

He wants the public to cause the arrest such persons when they encounter them.

“Fire service we don’t sell extinguishers or either take money for those services these persons are alluding to so should anybody even in fire service uniform with any of these activities come to you, please cause their arrest”, he said.

Deputy Chief Fire Officer Fiadzo reveals, “there are some telephone numbers on the receipt [issued by the fraudsters]. We have tried contacting those numbers but it is not going through so the best we can do is to inform the public.”

According to him, the Fire Service is collaborating with the police to track these individuals.