Timothy Anaab presenting some relief items at Dangmeow
Some households which suffered the effects of the recent floods in some parts of the Bolgatanga Municipality have received some relief items from the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) and the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly.
About 300 households received items, including bags of maize and rice, mattresses, plastic buckets, bowls, plates and blankets. The relief items, according to the NADMO officials, are meant to sustain the households as they find ways to recover from their losses.
Areas that were seriously affected in the municipality are Dangmeow, Sawaba, Tindonmolgo, Nyariga and Kalbeo. These same communities suffer almost every year, and yet there seems not to be any solution in sight.
The Bolgatanga Municipal Coordinator of NADMO, Timothy Anaab, told journalists that his outfit and the assembly were able to mobilise the relief items from their emergency stocks and were looking forward to receiving some more items and interventions from other organisations that had pledged to extend their helping hands support to the victims.
Mr Anaab reiterated his annual advice to households that have become ‘perennial victims’, especially those whose houses are on water ways, to relocate to end their perennial suffering.
He believes that once they leave those areas, the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly would have the freedom to execute its plans for the flood prone areas.
The assembly members of the affected communities were grateful to the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly and NADMO for the interventions.
They called for assistance from the two organisations to carry out public education in their electoral areas on prevention of flood-related disasters and the need for people to stop blocking water ways with their houses and walls.
Meanwhile, there are indications that there are more downpours to be recorded in the Bolgatanga Municipality and the Upper East Region.
From Ebo Bruce-Quansah, Dangmeow