Gomoa Antseadze flood victims receive relief items

Gomoa Antseadze (C/R), Sept. 3, GNA - The Gomoa West District National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), has donated relief items worth over GH¢250,000 to victims of flood that hit Gomoa Antseadze and its environs since 2009.

Three hundred and seventy-one victims from Antseadze, Odumase, Kyiren and Gomoa Maim, whose crops and household items were destroyed, received food and household items.

Speaking at the presentation ceremony at Antseadze in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region, Mr Peter Antwi Boasiako, District Coordinating Director, said it had been noted that majority of disasters the nation experienced were the making of Ghanaians themselves.

"Putting up structures on water ways, dumping refuse into gutters, careless use of electricity and naked fires were some of our behaviours which cause disasters," Mr Antwi Boasiako noted.

He said if people could desist from such behaviours they could be assured of the safety of their properties and the huge money spent by government on procuring relief items could be channelled into something else.

Mr Kow Amenyi Ewusie-Wilson, District NADMO Coordinator appealed to Ghanaians to take precautionary measures to protect their properties since relief items could not make-up for the cost of items lost through disasters.

He said floods are mostly caused by blocking of the passage of water and cautioned them not to build on water-ways.

Mr Ewusie-Wilson urged Town and Country planning officers of the District Assemblies to live up to expectation and ensured that people did not put up structures anyhow.

Nana Amoasa Otsiabah IV, Chief of Antseadze on behalf of the recipients, expressed gratitude to government for the gesture.

Nana Obentsir Kumah II, Adontehen of Gomoa Akyempim Traditional Area said the gesture had demonstrated that President Atta Mills and his government was a caring one.