The Minister for Works and Housing Samuel Atta-Akyea has entreated settlers of Blekuso and the other areas affected by the tidal waves over the weekend to stay out of harm’s way.
“I do not see how anybody can say that I have this bravado to be so close to the sea and I have my god sitting in front of my thatch house and I will survive,” he wondered in an interview with Francis Abban on Morning Starr Tuesday.
Close to 300 households in the Blekusu, Gavedzi, Amudzinu and Salakope communities were affected with properties running to several thousands of Cedis destroyed.
The over 1000 victims of the tidal waves which rocked the three coastal communities in the Ketu South municipality have been put up in school buildings.
The victims, sandwiched between the sea and the lagoon, had their homes submerged by the sea water when the high tides broke banks Sunday dawn.
Giving update on government’s intervention in the aforementioned communities following the tidal waves there Sunday June 11, 2017, Mr. Atta-Akyea said, “The catastrophe pertaining on our coast line is a natural phenomenon because all countries along the Atlantic Ocean stand the chance of facing these occurrences [tidal waves].”
Bemoaning the disturbing nature of the catastrophe he said “Government is not in the position to wholly absorb the financial demands to solely fund sea defense projects and will be counting on the World Bank and other foreign donors to find a lasting solution to this problem befalling our country”.
Settlements along the coast line of Volta, Central and Western regions were hit by massive tidal waves over the weekend which claimed one life and destroyed properties running into thousands of Ghana Cedis.
