By Akwasi Ampratwum-Mensah, Kintampo.
About 2,000 settler farmers in seven communities in the Kintampo Municipality of the Brong Ahafo Region, have been displaced after their buildings and other properties were destroyed as a result of three days of persistent torrential rainfall, which occurred in those areas.
The communities are, Tahiru Akuraa, Bawa Akuraa, Mahama Akuraa, Jato Akuraa, Chiranda Dawadawa and Atta Akuraa.]
Currently, the municipal assembly is housing the displaced families, including women and children, at the Kintampo Senior High School.
According to the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for the area, Mr Alhassan Seidu Harrison, as soon as he received reports about the incident, he mobilised a number of buses to convey the people to the school for their safety.
Mr Harrison and the Municipal Co-ordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Mr Abudu Issahaku, conducted newsmen round to inspect the extent of the damage caused to the affected communities and where the people were putting up at the moment.
They indicated that, the assembly was feeding the people at a great cost, pointing out however that, reports had been sent to both the regional office and national headquarters of NADMO for immediate assistance, and expressed the hope that there would be a quick response to their distress call.
The Municipal NADMO Co-ordinator indicated that, the people were finding it difficult to cross a stream to their farms to access food, adding that, their stock of food had been swept away by the resultant floods.
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