Flood: The focus is to support relocated victims with food, sleeping materials & healthcare – KON

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said the focus of the government is to support victims of the flood disaster caused by the spillage of the Akosombo Dam who have been relocated, with food, sleeping materials, and healthcare.

He indicated that twenty centers have been set up to accommodate the victims.

“These are our brothers and sisters in various parts of the region, and the topography is such that twenty centres have been set up to accommodate people from nearby villages affected by the flooding exercise.

“The focus is to ensure that the people who have been relocated to these twenty centres are supported with the necessary food, sleeping materials, healthcare, etc, so that their situation does not become more precarious than it is now and then subsequent to that, when the water levels recede, to assist them to go back to their communities,” the Ofoase Ayirebi Lawmaker told journalists at a press conference in Accra on Sunday, October 22.

Meanwhile, the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has revealed that it has rescued about 12,000 persons from 13 October 2023 to date in the flood disaster in Mepe and other parts of the Volta Region.

GAF indicated that as of Sunday, October 22, the flood situation in Mepe, the community that was heavily affected by the spillage has been brought under considerable control.GAF said this while dismissing reports claiming that military personnel deployed to Mepe for Humanitarian Relief Operations were withdrawn.

This was after North Tongu Member of Parliament Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa indicated that the soldiers had been asked to leave the community.

However, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has described the statement that was issued by the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) reacting to the reports of the withdrawal of the military detachment from the communities affected by the flood, as laughable and a fabrication