Rainstorm destroys five buildings at Nkoranza

Nkoranza (B/A), March 9, GNA - A severe rainstorm hit Yefri in the Nkoranza North District, ripping off the roofing of five buildings, including the three-classroom block of the local Roman Catholic Primary school and displacing the 120 pupils. Mr Michael Obour, Assembly Member for Yefri-Ampona Electoral Area, told the Ghana News Agency that about 40 people had also been displaced.

Mr Obour estimated that the cost of damage caused by the rainstorm run into thousands of Ghana cedis. He said the displaced school children attended classes in the local Roman Catholic Church whilst the displaced community members were putting up with friends and relatives.

Mr Obour called on the Nkoranza North District Office of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) and the district assembly to assist in the rehabilitation of the disaster victims. In another development, the Nkoranza South District Chief Executive, Mr Emmanuel Kwadwo Agyekum, has advised Nkoranza citizens stranded in Libya to get closer to the evacuation camps created by the Government of Ghana to be brought back home safely. Mr Evans Osei-Worae, District NADMO Coordinator also told the GNA that his outfit had information on some youths of Nkoranza who had been stranded in Libya. He said the stranded youth have been calling their relatives and informing them of the problems they were facing and the record about them had been sent to NADMO Headquarters.