MORE THAN 50 HOUSES SUBMERGED BY WATER AS ASSEMBLY MEMBER CRIES FOR HELP

The investigation carried out by your authoritative the Trust newspaper has established that, worse things are likely to happen to the residents of Kumasi especially those who have build in water prone areas.

Just last week when the rains bounced back after few weeks of no proper rain more than 50 houses in the Ahinsan East within the Asokwa constituency in the Kumasi Metropolis Assembly KMA) were submerged rendering the affected persons homeless.

The Assembly member for the are,Nana Yaw Wiredu who doubles as a Chief of Nyamekrom in the Eastern region with the stool name Nana Kwame Nnuro Agyapong ll who collaborated this paper’s investigation said many people including children and adults have been rendered homeless and there is no help for them.

Asked if the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) had gone to the aid of the victims of the torrential rain, the Assembly member said nothing and he personally has been struggling to find the victims a temporary place of abode.

Nana Yaw Wiredu is therefore appealing to philanthropists, Churches, individuals and organizations to come to the aid if the victims especially the children among them.

Apart from that, parts of Atonsu Agogo and other parts of the Kumasi Metropolis was hit with the flood rendering many people homeless whiles many traders also lost their wears.

Meanwhile, this paper has gathered that unless the City authorities especially the waste management wake up from their slumber and the residents change their attitude towards indiscriminate dumping of refuses in the gutters among other water ways something unpredictable can happen to the residents in the city should the rains continue for some couple of weeks as it has started. There is a saying that prevention is better than cure!