Displaced persons receive assistance

Goaso (B/A), Sept. 30, GNA - The Asunafo District Office of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has received assorted agricultural inputs from the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) for distribution to refugees, internally displaced persons and Ghanaian returnees from Cote d'Ivoire.

The items include 36 maxi-bags of "Obatanpa" maize seed, 24 bags of cowpea, 19 bags of soyabean, 40 sachets of hot pepper seeds, 35 tins of tomato seeds and 12 kilograms of okro seeds, which are to be given to 416 registered displaced persons in the district for their resettlement. Alhaji Ishak Abubakar Bonsu, district NADMO Coordinator told Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Goaso that FAO's gesture was in response to NADMO's appeal for assistance in the form of farm inputs to resettle displaced persons in the country.

He said NADMO Zonal Coordinators had already received packages of the items for onward transmission to expected beneficiaries. The co-coordinator announced that another package comprising cutlasses, hoes and fertilizer would be supplied by the FAO for distribution to the affected persons.

Alhaji Bonsu expressed optimism that the beneficiaries would take advantage of the facility to get resettled and overcome the trauma they went through.