Rainstorm destroys buildings

Apromase (Ashanti Region) 12 March '99

A storm which swept through three communities in the Ejisu/Juaben district of Ashanti on Wednesday,ripped off the roofs of 48 houses including school buildings. The incident, which affected Apromase, Domeabra and Asawase, left about 100 people homeless and destroyed property estimated at about 200 million cedis. Mr Yaw Sekyere, the assemblyman for the area, said on Friday that about 30 buildings including the local primary and kindergarten schools had their roofs ripped off at Apromase. Electricity poles for the town's streetlights were also damaged, he added. Mr Sekyere said 12 buildings at Domeabra including the primary and the JSS workshops had their roofs thrown off while six buildings at Asawase suffered a similar fate. He appealed to the district assembly, the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) and non-governmental organisations to help rehabilitate the affected buildings.