By Kingsley Nana Buadu
Victims of last week’s tidal waves disaster which swept 15 houses and displaced more than one hundred people at Moree in the Central Region have complained with pain, how they have been neglected and left to their fate in this difficult moment.
According to the Regent of Moree, Nana Obokese Ampah, they have not received any support nor seen any action by government or its agencies and corporate Ghana since the unfortunate incident.
Nana Ampah was speaking in an interview with GBC News during a visit to Moree by the President General of Global Peace Mission, Prof. Ato Duncan.
Nana Ampah together with Prof. Duncan, made a passionate appeal to the President of the Republic of Ghana and corporate Ghana to come to the support of the disaster victims and the community which is under siege from tidal waves.
The strong tidal waves collapsed Fifteen buildings along the beach of Moree, leaving over a hundred people displaced.
The victims including children are currently living under sheds within the Community.
Other homes with many people are also under threat of being washed away by the sea, if no action is taken now to prevent the ocean from coming home.
Aside the destruction of property running into thousands of Ghana Cedis, the landing beach of the fishers is also threatened.
Moree is an ancient fishing town in the Abura Asebu Kwamankese district credited for it pioneering role in fishing. The Community has in the past decade suffered the impact of rising sea levels.
The people attribute the recent disasters to the sea defense projects ongoing in Anomabo and Cape Coast which has increased the impact of tidal waves within other Communities including Moree.
The President General of Global Peace Mission, Prof Ato Duncan, who visited the town to assess the extent of damage caused by the disaster and what he could do to support, described the situation as a Security and life-threatening one. He, therefore, pleaded with the President to have special interest in the matter and intervene to save the Community and its people.
Prof. Duncan again called on the World Bank and Corporate Ghana to come to support the victims and the community in general.
According to the regent of the town Nana Obokese Ampah and some victims, although reports have been made to the appropriate authorities within the district and region nothing has been seen nor heard from anyone by way of support.
He, therefore, made a distress call to the government and corporate Ghana not to wait for the entire Moree town to be submerged or washed by the sea before they would show concern.
Mbrantie Hene Sofo Kweku Tawiah and other victims, also made a passionate appeal for assistance.