NADMO advises schools to close early if…

The Volta Regional Director of the National Disaster Organisation (NADMO), Mr Divine Bossman, has called on schools in the region, particularly those being housed in dilapidated buildings to close down immediately before the rains set in.

According to him, his outfit has embarked on an intensive education in the districts to create the needed awareness for the residents to desist from negative activities that could result in what he described as ‘preventable disaster’.

Mr. Bossman stressed the need for Ghanaians, particularly residents in the region, to cultivate the habit of protecting the environment against disaster, saying even though there exist natural disasters, most of them were caused by human activities.

Speaking in an interview with The Chronicle at Ho, the Regional Director noted that after a thorough assessment of the drainage system in the Ho Municipality, it has become clear that re-engineering work must be done to prevent flooding.

He said a suburb of Ho, called Dave,recently started to experience flooding, which was not the case in the past as a result of human activities, noting that central government should provide the needed funds to re-design gutters and roads in Ho township to save the area from a major disaster in the future and its health implications on the people.

Mr. Bossman observed that the Volta regional capital, Ho, which is acclaimed as the cleanest city in the country is likely to lose that position if care is not taken. To him, Ho could record a major flood that had never been experienced in the history of the town and that it is time to rebuild the road infrastructure and drainage system in the town.

He also advised municipal and district assemblies to play their roles more effectively in helping to plan communities, stressing that the situation where most assemblies in the region issue building permit in their offices to individuals to build, without knowing whether or not such buildings were on waterways ought to be stopped.

Mr. Bossman urged assemblies to complement educational activities of NADMO in the region by assessing building plots to ensure that the documents are genuine.

Touching on the destructive tidal waves in the Ketu South Municipality, the Regional Director regrettably said the Agavedzi community has been washed away into the sea and the government was doing everything possible to start the second phase.

He said NADMO‘s role in any disaster situation was to carry out various assessments before relief items would be provided and that people should not consider the period of assessing the situation to mean that government does not sympathize  with the victims.

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