A rainstorm that swept through Kadjebi in the Volta region last Wednesday destroyed a total of 124 houses and the Local Authority Primary “B” School block, rendering 617 people homeless.
Mr Kwadzo Dei, Kadjebi District Officer of the Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), who took newsmen round the scene last Thursday, put the estimated cost of damage at 75 million cedis.
He said pupils of the affected school are now attending classes in one of the Junior Secondary School (JSS) classrooms.
Mr Dei said an unidentified 50-year-old trader who was injured when the storm ripped off the roofs of her house has been treated and discharged by the local clinic.
Mr Rashid Bawa, Member of Parliament for Akan, told newsmen after his tour of the affected houses that he had contacted the district forestry office for tree seedlings to be planted by the community to serve as wind breaks.
He expressed concern over the rampant felling of trees by illegal chainsaw operators in the area, and called on the public to help check the practice.
Source: GhanaWeb
