Ada East NADMO embarks on disaster sensitisation drive


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By
Gideon Assinu, GNA 

Ada Foah (G/A), July 21, GNA – The Ada East
District Office of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has
embarked on programmes to educate the citizenry to prevent man-made and natural
disasters. 

Mr Ebenezer Teye Nartey, the Ada East District
co-ordinator of the NADMO speaking to the Ghana News Agency in an interview at
one of the programmes at

By
Gideon Assinu, GNA 

Ada Foah (G/A), July 21, GNA – The Ada East
District Office of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has
embarked on programmes to educate the citizenry to prevent man-made and natural
disasters. 

Mr Ebenezer Teye Nartey, the Ada East District
co-ordinator of the NADMO speaking to the Ghana News Agency in an interview at
one of the programmes at Ada Foah in the Greater Accra Region said mostly
relief items were temporal solutions to the ravages of disasters, and there was
therefore the need for the people to work towards disaster management and
prevention.

He said in the last three months, one life was
claimed and four persons injured, while a number of property worth GH¢7,000.00
were lost as a result of man-made disasters.

Mr Nartey said, according to a report, 35 per
cent of natural disasters which occurred in the area were high tidal waves of
the sea, rainstorm and the overflowing of the banks of the Volta River causing
flooding in the area.

He said people; especially fishermen living at
disaster prone areas in the district had been advised to relocate to avoid the
high tidal waves of the sea and that another looming development was the siting
of fuel and gas filling stations at residential areas at Ada.

According to him, most of the stations had
been issued with permits from appropriate state agencies and making it
difficult to deal with the owners.

GNA


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