NADMO presents relief items to families (Page 18)

Saturday July 25, 2009

THE National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has presented relief items to six families who lost their property through a fire outbreak in a house at Kuku Hill, Osu.
The items, valued at GH¢2,750, included assorted clothing, mattresses, blankets, rice, cooking oil, as well as plastic plates and cups.
Presenting the items, the Chief Disaster Officer at the NADMO headquarters in Accra, Mr Katey Dorgbey, said the items were meant to relieve the victims of some of the difficulties they were going through because of the disaster.
He said although the government could not help them put up a new building, it had the responsibility to ensure that the occupants were supported in a way.
He took the opportunity to advise Ghanaians to be wary of activities which brought about fires and other disasters, adding that it was unfortunate for people to lose all that they had worked for throughout their lives because of fire or floods.
Present at the short ceremony was the Public Relations Officer of NADMO, Major (retd) Nicholas Mensah.
Receiving the items, an 80-year-old landlady, Madam Margaret Ahunu Tetteh, expressed the gratitude of the beneficiaries to the government for the kind gesture.
She gave the assurance that the relief items would be shared equitably among the victims who had suffered so much pain.
The cause of the fire, which occurred in the evening of June 10, 2009, is not yet known but occupants believed it might have been caused by either an electrical fault or an explosion from a domestic gas cylinder.