…sweep through Adina, Amitinu, Blekusu in Ketu South Municipality
About 600 residents of Adina, a coastal community in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region were yesterday displaced when the ravaging sea swept through their homes and destroyed property.
This followed a similar incidence at a nearby area, Amutinu on Saturday when the sea water finally ran across the Aflao-Keta road to wreak havoc in many homes.
At least 43 homes were filled with massive volumes of water during the dreadful phenomenon, the Ghanaian Times has gathered.
The Municipal Director of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Mr Paul Alossode, in an interview, said that 304 people who were initially displaced at Amutin returned home at about sunset to scoop water from their rooms and mop up when the sea receded.
Mr Alossode said that NADMO officials who turned up at the scene promptly joined some local residents to create a waterway across the road and that helped to reduce the level of water on the way.
He said that the channel was not deep and that allowed vehicles to continue plying the Aflao-Keta road.
At the time of filing this report, many of the displaced persons were set to leave for the tiny island nearby Dzetagba (salt lagoon) to perch with friends and relatives, as they did in the past.
There was no casualty, said the NADMO district co-ordinator.
He expressed fear for the future of the local basic school where the classrooms where heavily filled with water, saying the structure may soon collapse.
This time, the sea did not extend its havoc to nearby Agavedzi which had been the epicentre of frequent tidal invasions in recent time.
Meanwhile, the Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Maxwell Koffie Lugudor has visited the flood scenes to assess the damage.
Attempts by the Ghanaian Times to contact him did not succeed.
An anguished Ms Abla Dzifa Gomashie, MP for Ketu South, reminded the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Francis Asenso-Boakye of his promise earlier this year to fix the frequent sea invasion problem in Ketu South as soon as possible.
“This is just too much for the people whose very livelihood has already been taken away from them as a result of the closure of the frontier,” she raged.
At the time of filing this report NADMO officials were heading to the scene.
“The weather is now very bad and I cannot hear you properly so let me brief you later,” said the Municipal NADMO director.
FROM ALBERTO MARIO
NORETTI, ADINA