GHANA RED CROSS ASSISTS FLOOD VICTIMS IN C. REGION (AUGUST 15)

THE Ghana Red Cross (GRC) has started supplying relief items to 1,500 households in the Central Region who were affected by the recent floods, to assuage their plight.
So far, the GRC has supplied items made up of plastic buckets, rice, blankets, soap and treated mosquito nets to some of the displaced people in the Upper Denkyira Municipality,Abura in the Cape Coast Metropolis and Semew and Ankaful in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) and the Mfantseman Municipalities, respectively.
The Secretary-General of the GRC, Mr Andrew Frimpong, accompanied by the acting Central Regional Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Mr Tony Arkorful, presented the items to 208 affected households at Semew in the KEEA Municipality.   
Mr Frimpong said lack of logistics was affecting the GRC in providing emergency response to disasters in the country.
He stated that the items worth US$150,000, were donated by the Swiss Red Cross.
Mr Frimpong said even though the presentation of the items was belated, it would go a long way to help the victims in the interim while they were in the process of reconstructing their houses.
The Municipal Chief Executive for the KEEA, Reverend Mrs Veronica Essuman-Nelson, later told reporters at Semew where floods from the Surowi River destroyed several houses, that the Municipal Assembly would talk to the people over the possibility of resettlement as a lasting solution to the problem.
The Country Representative of the Swiss Red Cross, Mr Seth Addae Kyerematen advised the people not to build in water courses to prevent future occurrences.
In a related development, the Assin North District Coordinator of NADMO, Mr Patrick Danso has called on the people in the district neither to settle nor farm closer to river banks to avoid perennial floods.