Interior Minister calls for needs assessment of flood situation

By
Morkporkpor Anku, GNA

Accra, June 19, GNA – The Minister for the
Interior, Mr Ambrose Dery has called on management of National Disaster
Management Organisation (NADMO) to do needs assessment of the flood situation
in Monday’s heavy down pour.

He said government, together with other
stakeholders, would take immediate steps and strategies to see how best to
resolve the situation and address the challenges.

The Minister, together with the Minister of
Defence, Police Director of Operations and the Director General of NADMO were
on an assessment tour of some flood areas in the Accra Metropolis.

The visit was to enable them to see for
themselves the impact of last Monday’s heavy down pour that hit most parts of
the country.

The Minister and his entourage, who flew in an
Aircraft to have a better view of the flood situation inspected areas like
Odawna, Dome, Kissieman, Kwabenya, Madina, and Tema Community 18, 19, 20 and
25.

Mr Dery commended NADMO officers, other
stakeholder and the security agencies for the efforts to salvage the situation
last night in the rescue work.

Mr Eric Nana Agyeman-Prempeh, the
Director-General of NADMO, said after the assessment, they would present the
report to government to help victims temporary with relief items.

He said “We are coordinating all the agencies
responsible for disaster management in the conduct of the needs assessment.”

He cautioned the public to be careful during
the raining season, because there would be more rains.

Assistant Commissioner of Police, Dr Sayiba
Gariba, the Director of Operations of the Ghana Police Service, said with the
coordination of the various agencies like NADMO, 48 Regiment of the Ghana Armed
Forces and others, rescue work was carried out last night.

He said going forward, “we need to plan
appropriately as we go into the raining season and with inter-agency planning
we can achieve more in our efforts.”

He said as a country, there was the need to do
more but the coordination efforts last night between the agencies actually paid
off.    

GNA

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