Tamale, Oct 25, GNA - The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), has disbursed relief items to flood victims in the Central Gonja District of the Northern Region were households in Kikali No 4 community of the District have ravaged by raging floods. The items included; 100 bags of rice, 100 bags of maize, 40 cartons of cooking oil, 400 blankets, 20 bills of used clothing, 50 packets of roofing sheets, 20 packets of roofing nails and four erected tents.

Mr. Issifu Salifu Be-Awuribe, the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Central Gonja, was briefing the media in Tamale on Mondays on the recent flood situation at the Central Gonja District. He said 40 households made up of 400 people in the Kikali No 4 community had been affected as a result of the Sunday heavy rains, increasing the water volumes in the area. Mr. Be-Awuriba said the recent floods has displaced about 30,000 persons in the district, most of whom have sought refuge in the Volta Region and other neighbouring areas.

He said the relief items given by the NADMO though commendable were not enough for the devastated people and appealed to the general public to come to the aid of the people. The DCE dismissed media reports that there was no peace in the area as a result of chieftaincy disputes saying: "The media must concentrate on the flood situations in the area instead of chieftaincy issues". He said the people were distraught as a result of the floods and not chieftaincy conflicts. 25 Oct. 10