Mepe Development Association Calls For Urgent Support For Flood Victims In Tongu

 

The Mepe Development Association (MDA), has appealed to the government to support the flood victims in Tongu in the Volta region.

A spillage caused by the Volta River Authority (VRA) due to the consistent rise in the inflow pattern and water level of the Akosombo and Kpong Dams has affected several communities.

Thousands of residents in districts across the Volta Eastern and Greater Accra regions have lost their belongings and homes to the flood resulting from the ongoing spillage.

According to MDA, Mepe has been the worst hit by the spillage. 

It added that the situation has resulted in a “looming health crisis following the flooding of toilet facilities and refuse dumps.”

MDA is therefore “calling on the government and its relevant agencies to speed up relief efforts to alleviate the plight of the people. Food supplies, sachets and bottles of drinking water, temporary accommodation facilities, medical interventions, clothing are urgently needed to stem the situation from further aggravation.”

“We are appealing for support from concerned individuals, organisations and other interested parties for the victims of the disaster in these trying moments,” portions of the release indicated.

"The downstream communities have been experiencing varied forms of ecological, economic, health and social crises since the construction of the Akosombo and Kpong Dams. We feel that this is too much a price to pay for our sacrifice to power the nation."

We demand that, while in the immediate term, the humanitarian catastrophe is dealt with, in the medium to long-term, the state agencies responsible for the problems the communities are facing, engage the people to find a people-centered solution to these enduring crises."

Credit: Emma Ankrah