Fire renders 62 homeless

Anomatoa (B/A), Jan. 19, GNA - Sixty-two residents at Anomatoa in Techiman municipality were rendered homeless on Monday when fire swept through the town and destroyed six houses.

Mr. James Kwabena Osei, Assembly Member, told Ghana News Agency there were no casualties but the extent of damage to property could be more than 24 million cedis.

He said 4.2 million cedis cash was burnt while 20 bags of maize, a large quantity of yams, clothing, spraying machines, cooking utensils and sewing machines were also destroyed by the fire. The Assembly member said the displaced residents were putting up with friends and relatives.

Meanwhile, the Techiman municipal office of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has presented relief items worth 18 million cedis to the victims.

The items included three tents, 12 blankets, 14 cups, eight plastic basins, 12 lanterns and 22 eating bowls. Mr. Adolf Adjei Sakyi, assistant disaster control officer of NADMO who made the presentation advised farmers to be careful when carrying naked fires to their farms.

He asked them to deposit their monies at the banks instead of Daasebre Oti Boateng presents computers to school

Koforidua, Jan. 19, GNA - Daasebre Oti Boateng, Omanhene of New Juaben Traditional area has presented five computers to the New Juaben Secondary Commercial School in Koforidua. The computers were donated by West African Health Foundation, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in New York. Making the presentation, Daasebre Oti Boateng said modern trends showed that no one's education would be complete without the computer and expressed the hope that all students of the school would be computer literates before leaving school. Daasebre had on previous occasions made a personal presentation of ten computers to the Koforidua Secondary School. The Municipal Director of Education for New Juaben, Ms Felicia Duku, advised the students to take computer studies seriously to prepare them well for the job market. The Headmaster of the school, Mr Yaw Asante, thanked Daasebre and the donors for their generosity and promised to put the computers to good use.