Nkoranza, (B/A) June 17, GNA – More than 300 people have been displa ced and property worth thousands of Ghana Cedis destroyed after fire had raze d about 35 thatched houses at Dromankuma. It is a farming community in the Nkoranza North District of Brong-Ahafo. It is believed that a bushfire caused the havoc and because majority of the people were on their farms, those who were at home could
not fight the blaze.
More than 600 bags of maize and large quantities of yam, cowpeas, millet and groundnuts were burnt. Members of the Busunya, (the district capital) Seventh Day Adventist
Church, led by Oheneba Kingsley Yeboah and Mr. Stephen Asante, elders of the congregation, spoke on behalf of the victims. Oheneba Yeboah told the Ghana News Agency that the victims had lost all their personal belongings and appealed to the National Disaster Managemen t Organisation (NADMO), philanthropists, NGOs, the district assembly and individuals to assist in rehabilitating them. He advised settler communities to be very cautious in handling fire to avoid causing such disasters in their communities.
Source: GhanaWeb
