The government has stated that it is committed to assisting the Akosombo Dam leakage victims in reestablishing their lives and resuming normalcy.
There are increasing calls for the government to take into account temporarily moving the affected people to the Saglemi Housing project.
The government’s initial priority is on giving the victims with crucial aid, Information Minister Kojo Oppong stressed in response to these pleas during a press briefing.
He continued by saying that the Volta Region’s spillover has made the necessary to build 20 special centers to house those impacted by the flooding.
According to him, this approach aims to prevent their situation from deteriorating further during this challenging period. Additionally, Mr Oppong Nkrumah added that the government plans to assist them in returning to their home communities once the water levels subside.
“These are our brothers and sisters in various parts of the region, and the topography is such that twenty centres have been set up to accommodate people from nearby villages affected by the flooding exercise.
“The focus is to ensure that the people who have been relocated to these twenty centres are supported with the necessary food, sleeping materials, healthcare, etc, so that their situation does not become more precarious than it is now and then subsequent to that, when the water levels recede, to assist them to go back to their communities.”
