Agona East flood victims receives relief items

The Agona East District Directorate of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) in collaboration with the District Assembly has presented relief items to the 900 displaced people at Ofoase and Nampong.

The items include bags of rice, poly mats, cartons of soaps, used clothes, shoes and bags of sugar.

Mr John Kuntu Blankson, acting District Coordinator of NADMO, who made the presentation, said efforts are on the way to relocate the two communities submerged by the flood to higher grounds.

Mr Blankson assured the affected communities that government would not turn her back to them, saying that all necessary assistance would be given to them to alleviate their suffering.

He said the government was mobilizing funds to procure roofing sheets, bags of cement and other building materials to aid in the construction of the buildings belonging to victims.

Mr Blankson said hundreds of acres of crop farms had been submerged by the floods adding that this has created some financial problems and food shortages in the affected communities.

He appealed to financial institutions, corporate bodies, NGOs and philanthropists to come to the aid of the victims in the Agona East District.

It would be noted that on June 16, a continuous and heavy downpour in Ofoase and Nampong caused the River Akora to flood its banks and destroyed properties worth thousands of Ghana Cedis.

Source: GNA