Displaced victims of the Akosombo dam spillage at Tokpo in the Shai Osudoku Municipality were handed a resettlement centre by the Management of Cities TV and Cities FM
The centre is expected to accommodate about 280 persons who were displaced by the dam spillage.
It would also free up classrooms which had been used by these persons for students to commence their lessons.
The resettlement centre is one of the five projects being undertaken by Citi TV and Citi FM with massive support from listeners and corporate Ghana, to provide relief to Akosombo flood victims.
Samuel Attah-Mensah, the Managing Director of Citi TV and Citi FM, speaking during the commissioning ceremony on Wednesday said he was surprised seeing that Accra had been significantly affected by the Akosombo dam spillage as the general focus, as projected by most people, was on the devastations caused in the Volta Region.
He further explained that the project became a reality because a young man from the area had alerted him to their need for shelter after losing their community.
“When the call came for us to visit here, the only reference on the list of media people, I must say, was Mepe. Everybody thought everything was happening in Mepe [in the Volta Region] until Umaru Sanda Amadu helped us locate this place. It was a bit of a contradiction. The reason is that nobody thought that Greater Accra was part of the mess. Everything was about Volta.”
“Now, when we came here, the idea was to donate food and relief items just to make lives better. So, on our first visit, we got here around 5 pm and began to share food and other relief materials.”
“So for him, if we can do anything for them, we should build shelters for them so that it can be a stop-gap measure until, eventually, they all can go back to their various places. So that recommendation is the reason we are all here today,” he stated.
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Shai-Osudoku, Linda Obenewaa Akweley Ocloo, praised the management for Citi TV and Citi FM for the initiative,while pledging the facility will be well taken care of.
“We are most grateful, and we are going to take good care of the facility. We are so grateful,” she indicated.
