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North Gonja DCE commends NADMO for intervention

Mr Sorku K. Yahoza, North Gonja District Chief Executive (DCE), has commended the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), for its swift intervention in providing relief items to alleviate the plight of the people who were displaced during the last rainstorm disaster in the area.

Date Created : 6/3/2014 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : GNA

Mr Yahoza told the GNA in an interview at the weekend that the April 20 rainstorm that destroyed a lot of property and displaced many people in Daboya and its surrounding communities, has remained an albatross on the Management of the District Assembly as to how to re-settle the people.

He said many of the people were still living with friends and relatives due to the extensive destruction and damage of their homes, and that for NADMO to respond swiftly to the appeal by the Assembly for help was commendable.

Mr Yahoza said though NADMO had intervened with some relief items, the materials were woefully inadequate to reach the over 1,000 people who were displaced, and therefore appealed to NGOs and other corporate bodies to come to the aid of the Assembly to resettle all the people.

He appealed to persons whose properties were destroyed but were not captured in the initial registration by the Daboya District NADMO officials, to

remain patient, since the Assembly would do all that it could to solicit support from external sources to assist them.

He said the NDC government was people-centred, and would not neglect any community or people in times of grief, saying, "That is why we are working hard to ensure that every Ghanaian benefits from the national cake.

Several houses and school infrastructure in the Daboya district got their roofs blown off when that severe rainstorm hit the area and caused havoc to life and property.

Two Junior High Schools, three primary schools, the Daboya District Police Station and five mosques were badly affected by the rainstorm, while more than 1,000 persons were displaced, some of whom are still living with friends and relatives.