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The Western Regional Coordinator for National Disaster Mobilisation Organisation, Japheth Baidoo has said that scores of Ivoirian refugees are trooping into Ghana as result of deepened ethnic conflicts that have engulfed the country.
Mr. Baidoo told Adom News on Friday that the fighting has intensified as a result of the capture of self imposed President Laurent Gbagbo.
He said the political tension has been heightened by the perception by northerners that internationally acclaimed President Alassane Ouattara may not be his own man and would be dictated to by UN and French.
Mr. Baidoo said “the situation has worsened forcing more of the French especially students to come to Ghana.”
Meanwhile the Ampain camp where majority of the refugees are camped, is sound according to Mr. Baidoo.
He stated “the Food and Agriculture Organisation has delivered enough food for the refugees to benefit.”
The NADMO coordinator related that the camp is ready to engage in the Easter celebrations as well.
Easter celebrations at Ampain Camp.
Ampain Refugee Camp Manager, Mr. Kelly Forson has told Adom News that the euphoria of the Easter celebrations has set precedence in the Ivoirian camp.
According to him, the Christians among them have set off to various church meetings to remember the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
For the most par t of the church activities they sang hymns and praises to God thanking him for the gift of life, also a time of peace for them to free their minds of the happenings in their country.
Some food items like maize, rice, salt have been shared to them to cook for their families after their church meetings.
Mr. Forson said “some religious bodies had also made donations to the camp consisting of food, water and other items to supplement what they have to make the Easter enjoyable.”
In another development, work was said to be ongoing at the camp to raise additional tents to accommodate more Ivoirians trooping in through the western corridors as a result of intensified fights after Gbagbo’s arrest.
Mr. Forson stated that there are 108 of them who going through registration formalities soon to be added to camp.
He said “the increasing numbers is putting pressure on resources and I am