By Elorm Yao Aryee.
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), has deployed the first consignment of relief items to victims of tidal waves disaster in the Keta and Ketu South Municipalities and Anlo District of the Volta Region.
The items are expected to provide the displaced residents with their basic needs to partially alleviate their plights.
The Deputy National Director-General of NADMO, in charge of Manpower, Seji Saji Amedonu, who distributed some of the items at Kedzikope in the Keta Municipality said the Organisation is assessing the situation in the affected areas to offer victims with additional support. Some communities along the coastline of the Volta Region were badly hit by torrential tidal waves over the weekend.
The torrential tidal waves ravaged about 17 Communities in the Keta and Ketu South Municipalities and the Anlo District.
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has disclosed that more than four thousand residents are displaced and have sought refuge in churches, community centers and others are putting up with neighbours.
GBC News visited some badly hit Communities such as Sallakofe, Amutsinu, Agavedzi and Adina in the Ketu South Municipality and Kedzikope in the Keta Municipality.
Parts of these communities are highly devastated and residents fear the next tidal waves would cause more havoc. Their only hope is for the government to construct a Sea Defense Wall as a long term measure against the perennial tidal waves devastation.
Most of the affected communities especially in the Ketu South Municipality are situated in between the sea and the Keta Lagoon and residents who are mainly fisher folks and Salt Miners depend on the water bodies for their livelihoods. There is virtually no vast land in those Communities for housing projects for resettlement. Their greatest fear is for their communities to be submerged by the sea and the Lagoon. Such an incident would be a threat to their existence and history. Officials of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), led by the Deputy National Director General of NADMO, in charge of Manpower, Seji Saji Amedonu has deployed relief items including assorted foods, drinks, beverages, toiletries, mattresses among others to affected residents. At Kedzikope where some of the items were distributed, the Municipal Chief Executive for Keta, Emmanuel Gemegah said the Assembly has prior to that provided shelter and other basic needs to the victims of the disaster.
The Deputy National Director of NADMO in charge of Manpower, Sedji Sadji Amedonu disclosed that the Ministry of Works and Housing has begun processes to start the construction of the second phase of a sea defense project from Agavedzi one of the hard hit communities to Aflao to bring lasting solution to the perennial calamity. He said NADMO will in the meantime continue to support the victims with their basic needs.
Mr Amedonu later handed over a truck load of relief items to the Heads of the Municipal and District Assemblies for onward distribution to the victims in the 17 affected Communities. END
