Progressive People’s Party donate to flood victims

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP), on Wednesday, donated some food items valued at about GH?10,000.00 to support victims of June 3rd twin-tragedy in Accra.

The items which include bags of rice and sugar, tubers of yam, boxes of tin fish, cooking oil, crates of eggs and boxes of water, were handed over to the Osu Klottey Sub-Metro Division of the Accra Metropolitan Authority (AMA).

Nii Allotey Brew-Hammond, PPP’s National Chairman, who presented the items, said the gesture was the party’s “widow’s mite” to the victims to help alleviate their suffering and also to extend their condolences to families who lost their loved ones.

He, however, said as much as the Party and the entire nation sympathised and mourned with families who had lost their loved ones, there was the need for Ghanaians to also learn from this bitter lesson the morale in remaining disciplined.

He called on the various state authorities to wake up to their responsibilities and ensure that discipline and sanity thus eliminating the indiscriminate building on water ways and along highways, dumping of refuse in open drains and other areas, to prevent this perennial flooding problems.

He also called on the Government to quickly place a ban on the unregulated placement of kiosks and containers on water ways and along highways and remove and compensate owners of those that were legitimately sited but had become a threat due to the current urban growth.

Nii Brew-Hammond appealed to the Government to ensure that due compensations were paid to the victims of the Circle Filling Station disaster and the families of the dead.

Ms Eva Naa Marley Lokko, the 2012 Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Party, reiterated the need for State institutions to be adequately empowered and resourced to effectively function.

She said, “We don’t want garbage emergencies and such annual donations any more”, and, therefore, urged the city authorities to sustain and encourage the sanitation culture that used to exist in the olden days, by actively mobilising people, and giving appropriate sanctions to those that flout the laws.

Ms Leticia Antwi, the Director of the Osu Klottey Sub-Metro Division of the AMA, thanked the PPP for the assistance, and called for more help from corporate institutions and individuals to help cater for the huge number of victims.