By Gideon Assinu, GNA
Ada Foah (G/A), July 21, GNA - The Ada East District Office of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has embarked on programmes to educate the citizenry to prevent man-made and natural disasters.
Mr Ebenezer Teye Nartey, the Ada East District co-ordinator of the NADMO speaking to the Ghana News Agency in an interview at one of the programmes at Ada Foah in the Greater Accra Region said mostly relief items were temporal solutions to the ravages of disasters, and there was therefore the need for the people to work towards disaster management and prevention.
He said in the last three months, one life was claimed and four persons injured, while a number of property worth GH¢7,000.00 were lost as a result of man-made disasters.
Mr Nartey said, according to a report, 35 per cent of natural disasters which occurred in the area were high tidal waves of the sea, rainstorm and the overflowing of the banks of the Volta River causing flooding in the area.
He said people; especially fishermen living at disaster prone areas in the district had been advised to relocate to avoid the high tidal waves of the sea and that another looming development was the siting of fuel and gas filling stations at residential areas at Ada.
According to him, most of the stations had been issued with permits from appropriate state agencies and making it difficult to deal with the owners.
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