Finds a permanent solution to the annual floods in northern Ghana – Yoo Naa | Social

Savelugu Chief Yoo Naa Abdulai Andani is unhappy at the inability of governments to find durable solutions to the perennial floods in northern Ghanaian communities that have resulted in the loss of life, property and the displacement of families.

He said deaths resulting from the floods could be prevented, while the destruction of farms annually by the floods, the displacement of families and the cost of hardships plaguing communities living near the Volta basins could also be minimized if will take concrete steps in the past to stop the situation.

He proposed collaborating with stakeholders to find lasting solutions to the annual canker that creates fear and despair in people every year the rains come.

Yoo Naa expressed concern when Stanbic Bank Ghana officials visited his palace to present relief items for distribution to his subjects who were victims of recent flooding resulting from torrential rains and the Bagre dam spill in neighboring Burkina Faso. .

The Bank presented a variety of consumable and non-consumable relief items to help flood victims, who were severely affected by the disaster that affected hundreds of people in and around Savelugu.

The elements included; 200 pieces of student mattresses, 100 bags of 25 kilogram rice, 20 boxes of soap, 60 boxes of cooking oil and six bales of people to distribute to victims in Nawuni, Afayili, Suhugtampia, Dipali, Tigla, Kukuobila, Kukuobil Tamalgu Communities of Kuldanaali, Nakpanzoo and Nabogu.

Yoo Naa expressed his gratitude to the Bank for the gesture and appealed to individual philanthropists, corporate institutions and Dagbon citizens to help bring some comfort to the victims by emulating the gesture exhibited by Stanbic Bank.

Mr. Nabil Hussein, Regional Manager for the Bank’s North Group, who presented the items in two separate communities on behalf of the Bank’s Executive Director, said that the relief items to the communities were to fulfill requests made by the leaders of the communities when they were very affected by the floods, a couple of weeks ago.

He indicated that the Bank’s management appreciates the difficulties that community members are going through, adding that as a human-centered Bank, it was essential that it respond quickly to the call to reduce the situation that communities face in difficult times. .

Assemblyman for the Nawuni Electoral Area, Alhassan Ussif, who received some of the items on behalf of the Nawuni and Afayili communities, explained that there were about 950 houses in these communities, and said that of that number, about 770 were severely affected. from the floods, adding that the victims suffered losses including; submerged farms and homes, and drowned animals.

He appealed to the Assembly to support the victims. “We need food and water now. Those are our immediate requests, and then we would see how to rebuild our houses,” he added.