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The Manklalo of the Battor Traditional Area, Togbe Borbordzi VII, has made hints that if the government doesn’t take immediate action to relocate him and his people, who were recently forced to moved from their homes due to flooding caused by the Akosombo Dam spill, they would be forced to relocate to the Saglemi Affordable Housing unit.
He said the flood victims are still living in substandard conditions in the evacuation camps while businesses and schools are closed.
The majority of the afflicted areas’ floodwaters are still significantly receding, but worries are widespread about the victims’ accommodations, who are presently being kept in safe havens.
Togbe Borbordzi VII made the comments at Agbetikpo, during a visit by the Tobinco Group of Companies, who presented them with several pharmaceutical products, food stuff and other relief items.
He said, “your coming is going to change a lot of things because a lot of people have been affected. You should extend this to the Presidency and the entire nation that we are suffering; we can’t replace our buildings again, many things are very expensive in this nation.”
We need the help of the government to ensure that they move us to a new location or quarters. We can’t live as wanderers forever, so if the government does nothing, we will all move into the Saglemi building and stay there until they provide us a permanent home, the Manklalo said.
One of the communities where there are currently more than a thousand flood victims is Agbetikpo.
While giving the aid on behalf of the organization, Nana Samuel Tobin, executive chairman of the Tobinco Group of Companies, joined his voice to the call and encouraged the government to find a long-term solution to the victims’ suffering.
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Constituency Member of Parliament(MP), thanked the organization and the people of Ghana for their support during his speech.
“We would want to say that is assuring and gives hope to us that Ghanaians are with them in their time of need,” he said, citing the tremendous kindness they have shown us.
As the water recedes, Osborn Fenu, the District Chief Executive for North Tongu, is pleading with the residents not to return to their structures for now.
According to the DCE, the buildings’ structural integrity is threatened by their submerged state, so a technical evaluation is necessary to decide whether or not the occupants will be safe.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
