The people of North East Region have begun counting their losses after the downpour that hit many parts of the area.
The flood destroyed dozens of houses leaving hundreds of people homeless and farmlands submerged, particularly in the Walewale constituency.
Most of the people have since relocated to other parts of the region to seek shelter and safety with friends and relations.
The volumes of flood waters destroyed bridges and culverts and some of the districts have been cut-off from the regional capital, Nalerigu including the highway connecting Walewale in the East Mamprusi and West Mamprusi municipalities.
Some of the residents, especially women and children were transported through canoes to safe areas and others seen walking through the deep flood waters with their families to save their lives.
The Member of Parliament for Walewale, Hajia Lariba Zuweira Abudu, after touring the affected communities and the Walewale-Nalerigu which is being rehabilitated currently, to assess the extent of damage caused.
She called on philanthropists and individuals to donate items to support the victims.
Hajia Zuweira said the situation is a major disaster that requires the intervention of everybody to complement the efforts of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) and the government to salvage the people from this predicament.
The Walewale MP who double as the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection lamented the impact of the flood on women and school children.
“You can see that a lot of women have lost their items, some of them have lost their clothes and mattresses and some of them have their houses submerged. Some school children have told me that their books and school uniforms are gone and I am pleading with all philanthropists, NGOs and everybody to donate to support these people” she appealed.
Meanwhile, Hajia Lariba has commended President Nana Akufo-Addo and Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia for their swift intervention to address the situation.
She also thanked the Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Atta for deploying engineers to swiftly rehabilitate the Walewale-Nalerigu highway for socioeconomic activities to continue unabated.
For his part, the North East Regional Director of Ghana Highways Authority, Mr. Andrew Yaw Okere said the damage caused was as a result of the intensity of the flood waters.
Food crisis
The North East Regional Director of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), John Kweku Alhassan, told THE CUSTODIAN in an interview that they envisage an imminent food shortage in the coming months.
He emphasized that the situation at hand is very serious because people’s foodstuffs have been carried away and their rooms collapsed, adding the source of water for the people in some of the affected communities have been compromised and their toilet facilities also damaged.
