The Director-General of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Nana Agyeman-Prempeh, has cautioned Ghanaians to be prepared for more rainfall as the country settles into the rainy season.
According to him, the coming rains are expected to be exceptionally heavy therefore Ghanaians should be wary of it.
He gave the warning when his outfit visited the flood victims at the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abirem (KEEA) Municipality and also distributed some relief items to them.
The gesture follows an assessment of damage to property and disruption of the livelihood of people in the areas following the heavy rains on Friday night where several properties were lost including the life of one Prison Officer.
Nana Agyemang-Prempeh, Regional Minister, Justina Marigold Assan, and some government appointees toured the affected communities in the Central Region.
Some affected communities visited included Ntranoa, Abee, Abeena, CP, Berase, Essiam, Atrokwa, Abeyee, Dutch Komenda, Komenda, Antado, Simiw, and Amissano.
“We are going to experience more rains so we must all be careful with what is coming to us. It’s all over the world. Currently, in West Africa it is raining heavily so if it’s raining in Burkina Faso, we should expect that it would descend down to Ghana so we should all be on guard.
“Looking at all the disasters, none of them is man-made. They’re natural disasters and today with climate change, the rainfall, you cannot do anything about it. The only thing is that we need to be careful with our sanitation systems and some of the places, the way we build in waterways” he warned.
Meanwhile, Central Regional Minister, Mrs. Justina Marigold Assan, admitted that the region has been left in a state of mourning for the life of a senior prison officer whose attempt to rescue lives turned otherwise and swept by the floods.
“Just around that time, I had a distress call from the MCE of KEEA telling me about the disaster happening too at his end so we had to quickly move in to assess the situation. It was so pathetic.”
“Honestly a lot of people had been displaced and we needed to rush in quickly. And thankfully we called NADMO national and they came in quickly and at midnight, a chunk of goods had arrived and we are moving to the place to give relief items to the affected people,” she said.
She also used the opportunity to assure that contractors were working hard to fix the collapsed main bridge linking the Central Regional capital, Cape Coast to Twifo Praso.
“It was Jukwa we heard first. We were talking to Urban roads, the Ministry of Highway, and they gave us the assurance that the contractor was moving to the site to take boulders to quickly put the interventions on the ground for people to be able to use the road.”
Mrs. Assan said the situation at KEEA was an eyesore and needed a quick intervention to salvage the situation.
