THE National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) last Saturday presented a number of relief items to victims of last Thursday’s flood which affected 300 houses and rendered 1,200 people homeless at Kpong, Lorlornyo and Bely Kope in the Lower Manya District of the Eastern Region.
The items included 100 bags of rice, 100 pieces of mattresses, 150 pieces of blankets, nine bales of second-hand clothing, as well as 150 pieces of cups and bowls.
A number of roofing sheets and nails will also be given to the victims after personnel of NADMO have completed assessment of the houses that were destroyed.
Presenting the items, the Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, expressed the government’s sympathy to the people.
He charged the District Chief Executive for Lower Manya, Mr Isaac Tetteh Agbo and the assembly member for Kpong Ahujo, Mr Masud Abdul-Mumin, to ensure that the items were presented to those who were affected by the disaster.
He also tasked the DCE and other stakeholders to identify and demolish all buildings that had been built along watercourses to prevent a future recurrence of the disaster.
The regional minister also advised the people to make strong foundations when putting up their houses to enable them to withstand future floods.
For his part, the acting Eastern Regional Co-ordinator of NADMO, Mr Tunde Hussein Kayode, urged the people to go for seedlings from the various offices of his outfit to plant them, and that “when these trees grow they will serve as windbreaks and reduce the flow of any future floods”.
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