The NADMO team interacting with some of the residents
THE EASTERN Regional Secretariat of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) has sensitised residents of four communities in the region to the likely impact of spillage from the Bagre Dam of Burkina Faso.
The communities which spread across four districts include Kwahu– Kotoso, Adwaso, Amankwaa – Tornu, and Ekye – Amanfrom, all in the Kwahu South, North and Afram Plains North and South Districts respectively.
Officials from the Ghana National Fire Service, Ghana Police Service, Environmental Health and Sanitation, Forestry Division and Assembly Members were also present to lend support to NADMO during the sensitisation workshop.
So far, 34 persons have been confirmed dead following the devastating spillage in northern Ghana.
Two more persons have been reported missing while thousands have been displaced.
During separate engagements with the communities, the Regional NADMO Director, Kwame Appiah Kodua, tasked the residents to take disaster-risk-reduction issues seriously to help reduce the effects of disasters on all, especially the less privileged in the society.
On their part, the residents, including fishermen and market women, expressed their profound gratitude to NADMO for the counselling.
BY Daniel Bampoe, Koforidua