Tidal Wave: Keta, Ketu South and Anloga may soon lose their Coastal Communities, and Road to the Sea

The hard hitting tidal waves that swept through some communities of the Ketu South and Keta Municipalities in the early hours of Sunday may soon wipe away the communities of Salakorpe, Amutsinu, Adina, Agavedzi, Blekusu, Kedzikope, Abutiakope, Fuvedzi, Keta Central and other towns and villages if nothing is immediately done to address the perennial problem.

Affected residents are still counting their loses following the destruction of their houses and other properties running into millions of Cedis.

According to statistics available to the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), over 3,000 residents covering about150 households in the three Municipalities have been displaced as a result of the tidal flooding of their homes with mostly nothing left to salvage.

Already, some parts of the land Harbouring Denu-Keta road has been washed away by tidal waves that occurs every year. The bedrock of the shorelines is getting weak and may soon give way to the rising waves which might result in the washing away of the major road linking the three Municipalities.

When ghananewsonline.com.gh interacted with some of the affected residents they expressed their frustrations and appealed for immediate measures to protect the coastal belt of the Volta region and Ghana at large.

We observed that the tidal waves is about to hit other communities in the area namely: Agorko, Tetekorpe, Adafienu, Hedranawo, Denu and the Southern Parts of Aflao, including Aflao Market and the main Border if stringent measures are not taken to forestall its ravaging effects.

NADMO officials were said to have visited the affected communities to distribute some relief items to the displaced residents to help alleviate their plight in the temporarily but the residents are calling for the construction of the sea defense wall across all coastal communities along the country’s shoreline as a lasting solution to this recurring disaster.

By Hebrews Pouyeli Kumako