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Rainstorm displaces many in Bongo

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6 schools in the Bongo district have been ripped off as a result of heavy rainstorm that occurred on Monday. Teaching and learning at the affected schools came to a standstill as teachers and students were left devastated and displaced. Quarters for some staff of the Bongo district assembly and some police officers were also ripped off.

Ripped off quarters of the assembly

Most residents at Bongo-Soe are the worse affected. Although no life was lost, most residents of the affected communities have their properties destroyed due to the heavy downpour.

“My television, my woofer, bowls and other things are spoiled” Felix Maapeh, an environmental health and sanitation officer at the district lamented.

Ravaged Lungu CHPS

“I have lost some meeting money and my clothing as a result. I don’t know where to sleep so I am supposed to search for a place and if I don’t get a place to sleep I will stand till daybreak” Agongo Celina from Bongo-Soe narrated her ordeal.

The chief of Bongo-Soe, WOI retired, Sebastian Anaamlebna Amaltinga emphatically stated the situation have a tendency of worsening the poverty level the district is battling with. “Already people are poor and the little thing one has, it has been wiped off. This morning people came to me and complain about how to even get fed”

A Community Health-based Planning Center serving the entire community of Lungu has also been ravaged. Some of the affected schools include Bongo Soe Senior High School, Bongo-Soe primary A and Vincent Akurigo Memorial Catholic Primary/Kindergarten.

Peter Ayinbisa-DCE of Bongo

The district chief executive of Bongo, Peter Ayinbisa who assumed office barely two weeks to the disaster, inspected the affected communities and to empathize with the affected persons. Describing the damage as overwhelm beyond the capacity of his outfit Mr. Ayinbisa called for stakeholder support since the assembly is financially constrain haven received its common fund since the beginning of this year, 4th quarter of 2014 and 2016.

A contractor who recently completed and handed over the Agomo primary school barely three weeks before its roof ripped off risk being reprimanded for sordidly executing his work. “We shall call the contractor to order, you saw the leakages, you saw the type of materials he used, you saw that some of the roofing sheets were like old ones. We cannot accept people to do sordid works and go scot free. He has to go back and use his own resources to fix it. I am told this is going to be his second or third time of going back to solve the same problem” the DCE of Bongo clearly stated.

Ravaged Vincent Akurigo Memorial Catholic Primary School

The whole community of Bongo-Soe was cut off from the national grid due to the destruction made on a transformer and electrical poles. Officials of the National Disaster Management Organisation, Red Cross, Ghana Education Service, the district police command and some heads of departments of the assembly were part of the tour to have firsthand information of the damage caused.

Tahiru Rafiu, Bongo district NADMO director in an interview said plans are advanced to carry out a rapid assessment to ascertain the extent of damage caused before are assisting victims with logistics.

By: Joshua Asaah|A1radioonline.com|Ghana

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