Ghana's interior minister has commissioned a committee to develop a national fire code, Modern Ghana reports. The move is aimed at overhauling the country's fire safety regulations.
The committee's mandate is to produce the code, according to Modern Ghana. The report names the interior minister as Muntaka, who commissioned the committee. The announcement was published on Saturday, 19 September 2026.
According to a separate report carried by Zawya, the committee has been tasked with overhauling Ghana's fire safety regulations. Both outlets frame the committee's work as the development of a national fire code.
The reporting does not specify the committee's membership, its timeline, or how the resulting code would be enforced. No details were given on which existing regulations the new code would replace or amend.
Fire safety regulation in Ghana has been handled under existing legal instruments, though the source material does not describe them. The creation of a dedicated national code would consolidate rules covering fire prevention and safety standards, based on how the two outlets describe the committee's purpose.
What to watch next: the committee's composition and any timeline for a draft code, neither of which has been announced in the reporting so far.