Akosombo Dam Spillage Disaster: Okudzeto Ablakwa To Inaugurate Accountability Elders Council Today To Oversee Relief Items And Funds Received In North Tongu Constituency
The membership of the Council include Prof. Eniratus E.H.K Akaho, Prof. Emmanuel Netsey-Apedo, Mr Kwami Alorvi, Paramount Queen mother of Mepe Traditional Area, Mamaga Adzo Sreku IV, Mamaga Agbogla VI and Mr Nicholas Bodeha.
Freeman Koryekpor 
THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu Constituency in the Volta Region, Honourable Samuel Okudzeto-Ablakwa with supreme support from the chiefs and queen-mothers of the five (5) recognized traditional areas will on Sunday November 5, 2023 inaugurate accountability Elders Council to oversee transparency and equitable distribution of all relief items and funds received in the constituency.
The membership of the Council include Prof. Eniratus E.H.K Akaho, Prof. Emmanuel Netsey-Apedo, Mr Kwami Alorvi, Paramount Queen mother of Mepe Traditional Area, Mamaga Adzo Sreku IV, Mamaga Agbogla VI and Mr Nicholas Bodeha.
The members of the Council being chaired by Prof. Eniratus E.H.K Akaho, would work together to bring relief to thousands of the victims in the Akosombo and Akuse dams spillage by the Volta River Authority.
The membership will also first of contact for the philanthropists, individuals, corporate institutions and central government in the case of supporting the flood victims in the North Tongu District.
Earlier, the hard working MP has launched a mobile relief caravan to distribute items to victims of the Akosombo Dam spillage.
According to him, they have developed an effective distribution system to ensure that all 19 camps for displaced persons in his beloved constituency regularly receive much-needed relief items without bottlenecks.
He said his office has secured a relief package comprising bags of rice, maize, sugar, cooking oil, canned fish, mosquito nets, detergents, tissues, mosquito repellents, sanitary towels, life jackets and tissues for onward distribution to all camps.
“The 10,000 displaced constituents remain dear to our hearts and shall not be abandoned,” the MP noted.
“I shall be with you all the way — your welfare is my priority”, the MP added.
Mr Okudzeto Ablakwa was one of the first responders who visited the devastated areas following the spillage of the Akosombo Dam.
He has since launched an appeal to support the displaced some of whom fall within his jurisdiction as Member of Parliament for North Tongu.
Millions of properties lost in parts of the Volta region following the spillage of the Akosombo Dam.
Flooding caused by the spillage has forced many communities in the North, South, and Central Tongu districts of the Volta Region to evacuate, leaving them with no choice but to try and salvage what’s left of their belongings.
The affected areas have been zoned into 19 camps to help the distribution of relief items to the victims.
Already, bags of rice, sugar, sanitary pads, corn boxes of can fish, and other have been distributed to residents. Over 10,000 people have been displaced and homes submerged
