By Emmanuel Nyatsikor
Adaklu Waya (V/R), July 14, GNA – Mr Jerry Yao Ameko, Adaklu District Chief Executive (DCE) has handed over relief items to the Adaklu District National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) at a ceremony at Adaklu Waya.
The items are to be distributed to those affected by the recent floods in the district.
The items were donated by Mr Governs Kwame Agbodza, Minister for Roads and Highways and Member of Parliament for Adaklu and the National Secretariat of NADMO.
Among Mr Agbodza’s items were 86 bags of rice, three boxes of tea bags, 50 pieces of wellington boots, five bags of rice, and 30 boxes of cooking oil.
Those from NADMO national secretariat were 50 bags of rice, five boxes of cooking oil, 70 pieces of blankets, 50 pieces of mattresses, and 100 pieces of plastic plates.
Others were 100 pieces of plastic cups, 50 plastic buckets, 25 plastic basins, and 150 pieces of insecticide-treated mosquito nets.
Speaking at the ceremony, Mr Ameko stated that following an assessment of the damage caused by the floods in the district by officials of NADMO, 505 people were identified as those displaced by the floods in several communities.
He mentioned some of the communities such as Adaklu Waya, Adaklu Anfoe, Adaklu Kpodzi, Adaklu Kpatovoe, Adaklu Ablornu and Adaklu Sofa.
The DCE assured that all the affected people would receive support in the coming days and urged them to remain calm and await their turn.
Mr Ameko stated that the havoc caused by the floods should alarm “all of us to refrain from building on waterways.”
He called on traditional leaders and Assembly members to periodically organize their people to desilt gutters in their communities.
The DCE was grateful to the donors for their timely support, adding that Mr Agbodza donated similar items to all the other districts in the Volta region.
Mr Emil Akpator, Deputy Director of NADMO in the district who received the items on behalf of his outfit, assured that the items would be handed over to the victims.
Mr Bright Asare, a victim from Adaklu Waya told the Ghana News Agency that he lost everything including clothing, cooking utensils and bags of maize and groundnuts and said the donation would relieve them of their sufferings.
He said that anytime River Tordzie overflowed its banks, parts of Adaklu Waya got flooded and appealed for the expansion of the bridge over River Tordzie between Adaklu Waya and Adaklu Kpodzi.
GNA
Edited by Maxwell Awumah/Lydia Kukua Asamoah