THE Volta River Authority (VRA) has provided ¢20,000 to support flood victims in the three regions affected by the floods, namely Northern, Upper East and Upper West.
As part of the support package, the VRA has presented food items worth GH¢10,000 to the flood victims.
The items comprised 300 bags of maize and 155 bags of local rice.
The Director of General Services at the VRA, Ms Abla Fiadjoe, presented the Northern Region’s share of the food items to the Regional Minister, Mr Moses Bukari Mabengba, at a short ceremony in Tamale. The region received 145 bags of maize and 65 bags of rice.
Ms Fiadjoe noted that the items would help ease the suffering of the displaced persons, adding that the VRA had always supported victims of disasters as part of the company’s efforts to meet its corporate social responsibility.
Mr Mabengba commended the VRA for constantly showing concern in times of disaster and entreated other corporate bodies to emulate this example.
He, however, cautioned officials of NADMO against the misuse of relief items, noting that any person found culpable of diverting such items would be punished.
Mr Mabengba said the floods had worsened the poverty situation of people in the north as it had caused the destruction of farm produce and hindered economic activity.
The spillage of the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso in August, this year, led to the overflow of the Black Volta and White Volta and the situation was worsened by heavy rains thereafter, inundating communities located along the banks of these rivers, stretching from the Upper East Region through the Upper West Region to the Northern Region.
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