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A member of the Young Patriots, the youth wing of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), David Asante, has stridently called on President John Dramani Mahama to reveal the contents of the findings by the American fire experts who were charged to unveil the mystery of the numerous fire outbreaks in the country. Speaking on Oman FM's political analysis programme, David Asante asked the President to prove to Ghanaians the truth in his wide-held mantra that the fires might have been caused by arsonists. It can be recalled that President John Mahama, in his quest to unearth the causes of the fire outbreaks that broke out at the Kantamanto market and other markets in the country, employed the expertise of some American forensic team. The experts were tasked to get to the bottom of the cause of the fires which still remains a mystery to many Ghanaians. As if to compound the plight of Ghanaians, residents at Fadama, and Sodom and Gomorrah in Accra, a couple of days ago, witnessed another fire outbreak at their vicinities. This has ignited discussions on the findings by the American experts. Making his submissions on the Madina-based radio station, the NPP activist challenged President Mahama to "make public the findings of the American fire experts for the whole of Ghana to know whether it corroborates or it confirms his earlier premature stance of arson. Let the President prove us wrong, his critics that what he said regarding the arson; the American fire experts� report that they put out and their recommendations corroborate and then confirms that earlier premature position of the President.� To him, the President's prediction regarding the market fires was sheer falsehood but added that he (President Mahama) can absolve himself only when he has made the report public. �Until then let all Ghanaians put to the President that he erred�And after that, let the President be gentleman enough after he produces the document and the document does not authenticate his stand; he should come and apologize to Ghanaians. And we need that document, they shouldn�t make it as secret as a CIA classified document,� he concluded.