Tamale, Oct. 25, GNA – The Central Gonja District has taken
delivery of relief items from the government through the National
Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) to be distributed to
flood victims, Mr Salisu Be-awuribe, the District Chief Executive,
has said. The items include 20 bales of secondhand clothing, 100 bags of
rice and maize, 50 packets of roofing sheets and nails, 100 cartoons
of detergents as well as 30 plastic containers. Mr Be-awuribe told the GNA in an interview on Monday that the
assembly, through the District Disaster Management Committee
made up of members from the Ghana Educations Service, NADMO
and Ministry of Health, are to strategies on how to distribute the
items. “This committee has been tasked to effectively and efficiently
ensure that the right people who have been affected by the floods
get these items. The assembly in its own way will be monitoring the
processes,” he said. Mr Be-awuribe said the assembly had, as part of short term
measures to ensure the safety of the victims, erected tents for
displaced people. He said the assembly had put in place measures to supply the
victims with potable water and also established an emergency health
post to safeguard outbreak of any disease and other health related
problems. Mr Be-awuribe said personnel from the United Nations
Children’s Fund had visited the affected communities to have first
had information on the situation. He said the number of displaced people had shoot up from
25,000 to 30,000 as some more communities in the district
experienced some rains over the weekend. The floods in the Central Gonja District had left two people dead,
displaced over 25,000 people and affected 55 communities.
Source: GhanaWeb
