THE National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has presented assorted relief items to 20 persons whose rooms and personal belongings were destroyed in a fire outbreak at Osiem in the East Akyem Municipality in the Eastern Region.
The items comprised 15 pieces each of students’ mattresses, blankets, plastic bowls and plates, buckets and cups, as well as three packets each of roofing sheets, bags of rice and maize,two bags of beans, cartons of soap and a bail of second hand clothing.
The East Akyem Municipal Assembly also provided the affected persons, mostly farmers, with undisclosed sums of money as part of its contribution to support them.
The fire, which occurred on Saturday, June 27, this year, destroyed items such as refrigerators, television sets, furniture and other personal belongings of the 20 persons in a compound house number B 16 at Kubase at Osiem.
Presenting the items, the Eastern Regional Co-ordinator of NADMO, Mr Ransford Boakye and the Municipal Chief Executive for East Akyem, Mr Peter Asirifi, said the items were meant to provide the victims with relief to enable them to cope with the unfortunate incident.
Receiving the items on behalf of other victims, Madam Esther Amakye, thanked the government for the gesture, which she described as timely.
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