The inter-ministerial committee set up by government to help address havoc caused by floods have visited Buipe to commiserate with victims.
Chief of staff, Akosua Fremah Osei-Opare who is the chairperson of the committee led the delegation to Buipe in the Central Gonja District of the Savannah Region.
The visit by the committee to Buipe follows weeks of flooding emanating from the overflow of the Black Volta coupled with heavy levels of rains whichlet to the displacing of over 6,000 people with women and children being the most vulnerable.
Tracts of farmlands have also been submerged with some victims also losing ruminants and other domestic animals to the floodwaters.
Speaking during a courtesy call on the paramount chief for Buipe Traditional Area, Buipewura Abdulai Jinapor II, the chief of staff explained that the committee was in Buipe to get first hand information on the extent of devastation caused by the flood.
She explained further that the committee was mainly established to coordinate government's response to the spillage of the Akosombo Dam but has been opened to include Buipe and other flood hit areas in the county.
Buipewura Abdulai Jinapor II, thanked the inter-ministerial committee for visiting Buipe to ascertain the extent of damage caused by the flood.
He appealed to the committee to hasten with efforts to bring finality to the issue.
The Buipewura also disclosed that he has made land available for the victims to be relocated.
The committee later visited the flood victims who are being accommodated at a school as they await anxiously for the water to recede for them to return to their homes.
The chief of staff led committee later donated relief items to the victims with the assurance that government is with them.
By: Ezekiel Abdul Aziz
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