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General news for Monday, October 26, 2020
Source: Starr FM
2020-10-26
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia with the victims of the collapse of the church building
The Government has donated GH ¢ 200,000 to the victims of the collapse of the Church building in Akyem Batabi in the Asene-Manso-Akroso district of the Eastern Region.
Vice President Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, who led a delegation to the community on Sunday as part of his three-day campaign tour of the Eastern Region, announced.
He sympathized with the survivors and grieving families in a durbar and pledged the government’s support for the family at this difficult time.
“This donation is just to get started, and then we will see the way forward. The DCE will oversee the distribution of the money, ”said Dr. Bawumia.
The Head of Akyem Batabi, Barima Oppong Kyekyeku II, thanked the Government for the kind gesture. He assured that the people of the area support the candidacy of the second term of President Akufo Addo.
Background
The collapse of the unfinished three-story church building occurred on Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at approximately 2:30 p.m.
Prophet Akoa Isaac told police in his statement after his arrest that he was ill and lying in his residence on the same grounds as the Church when he heard the collapse of the church.
He said he was told that around 56 worshipers were in and around the building fasting and praying when the incident occurred.
According to one of the survivors, “We were resting in the church building after fasting and praying, so as we rested, we heard parts of the building collapse. We had more than 60 years in the building, so we started to flee, some people managed to escape but others were trapped ”.
Rescue operation
The Rescue Team consisting of personnel from the National Disaster Management Organization, NADMO, Military, Ghana National Fire Service, Police, Ambulance Service, BNI, GHS, Homeland Security and some volunteers completed the four-day rescue operation on Friday, October 23, 2020.
Thirty victims were recovered as of Friday, October 23, 2020, when the operation ended. 22 of them had died, while eight survived.
The deceased consisted of 12 women, 9 men and a girl.
The Ghana Air Force provided the sniffer dogs in the early hours of Friday to check for possible bodies covered by the debris.
The team painstakingly searched for the latest victim – a woman reported missing but not found under the rubble, so Church leaders were asked to report to the National Disaster Management Organization, NADMO, each time they smell a stench from the disaster scene.
Following the closure of the rescue team, the Director General of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), Eric Nana Agyeman Prempeh, praised the rescue team consisting of 210 people from various security agencies and operators of four excavators, 7 dump trucks and 2 payloaders for working non-stop.
He tasked the agencies in charge of regulating the construction of buildings to intensify their control regimes so that they can proactively prevent a repetition of such an incident.
Some residents say that construction of the Church building began in 1996, so its structural integrity continued to weaken.
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