Central Gonja receives relief items for flood victims

Tamale, Oct. 25, GNA - The Central Gonja District has taken

delivery of relief items from the government through the National

Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) to be distributed to

flood victims, Mr Salisu Be-awuribe, the District Chief Executive,

has said. The items include 20 bales of secondhand clothing, 100 bags of

rice and maize, 50 packets of roofing sheets and nails, 100 cartoons

of detergents as well as 30 plastic containers. Mr Be-awuribe told the GNA in an interview on Monday that the

assembly, through the District Disaster Management Committee

made up of members from the Ghana Educations Service, NADMO

and Ministry of Health, are to strategies on how to distribute the

items. "This committee has been tasked to effectively and efficiently

ensure that the right people who have been affected by the floods

get these items. The assembly in its own way will be monitoring the

processes," he said. Mr Be-awuribe said the assembly had, as part of short term

measures to ensure the safety of the victims, erected tents for

displaced people. He said the assembly had put in place measures to supply the

victims with potable water and also established an emergency health

post to safeguard outbreak of any disease and other health related

problems. Mr Be-awuribe said personnel from the United Nations

Children's Fund had visited the affected communities to have first

had information on the situation. He said the number of displaced people had shoot up from

25,000 to 30,000 as some more communities in the district

experienced some rains over the weekend. The floods in the Central Gonja District had left two people dead,

displaced over 25,000 people and affected 55 communities.