Thirty persons rendered homeless at Pakyi

Pakyi Number Two (Ashanti Region) 25 May '99

Thirty persons were rendered homeless and property estimated at over seven million cedis destroyed when a rainstorm hit Pakyi Number Two, a farming community in the Amansie West district of Ashanti last Wednesday.

Some houses had their roofs torn off, trees uprooted and large hectares of food crops destroyed.

No casualty was recorded.

Baffour Oduro Ababio, chief of Pakyi Number Two and Miss Cecilia Akyaa, assemblywoman for the area, conducted newsmen round the affected buildings and farms.

Baffour Ababio appealed to the Amansie West district assembly and National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) to assist the victims with building materials to enable them to rehabilitate their houses.