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Former Member of Parliament(MP) for Adentan constituency, Yaw Buaben Asamoa, has bemoaned the typical Ghanaian attitude where people care less about reporting bad activities to the appropriate State authorities.

According to him, Ghanaians have this character of letting things happen before they address it when what they actually have to do is bring it to the attention of the authorities, so they take action to prevent the society from danger.

He was speaking in relation to the explosion that occurred at Apiate near Bogoso on Thursday, killing about 17 people and over 50 people seriously injured.

A truck loaded with explosives was said to have clashed with a motorbike causing the explosion.

Yaw Buaben Asamoa, speaking on Peace FM's ''Kokrokoo'' programme, believed the residents in the community had been witnessing trucks with explosives plying their roads without escort, so wondered why they sat aloof till this explosion happened.

Although he wasn't blaming the residents for the explosion, he, however, opined it's about time the citizens stopped behaving as spectators.

He advised that they report life-threatening activities they witness to the Police and all relevant authorities before it results in calamity.

''We must prevent the occurrence of things like this. We should know we have a share in Ghana, so if something is going bad, let's speak up! And while we're speaking about it, we should also be putting measures in place to deal with it," he stated.

He also charged the Police not to spare any person whose negligence contributed to the explosion, saying, "if someone acted unlawfully, let the laws take its course on the person''.