Friday 22nd June, 2018
Adukrom (E/R), June
22, GNA – The Okere District Director of the National Disaster Management
Organization (NADMO) Mr Emmanuel Kissiedu Yirenkye has advised community
leaders in the district to organize clean-up campaigns to keep all water ways
in the district free to help prevent flooding.
Mr Kissiedu gave the
advice in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on the
By
Edmund Quaynor, GNA
Adukrom (E/R), June
22, GNA – The Okere District Director of the National Disaster Management
Organization (NADMO) Mr Emmanuel Kissiedu Yirenkye has advised community
leaders in the district to organize clean-up campaigns to keep all water ways
in the district free to help prevent flooding.
Mr Kissiedu gave the
advice in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on the aftermath of
recent heavy rains which caused flooding in many parts of the country.
He however noted the
Okere District did not record any flood and disaster during the rains.
The NADMO Director
urged communities in the district to join the campaign towards ending of open
defecation in the district by Plan Ghana and advised communities in Okere
especially the rural areas to form groups to construct household toilets and
help families to own their private toilets in their homes to prevent outbreak
of water borne diseases during the raining season.
He said the district
has also identified safe havens in all communities in the district where people
could be moved to in case of disasters.
He explained that
the safe havens identified include churches, mosques, palaces, schools and
private homes with big compounds that could house many people.
Mr Kissiedu said
owners of such structures and institutions had been spoken to and have agreed
to host disaster victims.
GNA