Dormaa West DCE, NADMO Console Poultry Farmers And People Who Properties Have Been Destroyed By Heavy Rainstorm
The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Dormaa West District Assembly in the Bono Region, Mr Francis Kwadwo Oppong has consoled the owners of the properties estimated at 2.6 billion which were destroyed when a severe rainstorm hit Dormaa Yaakrom and its surrounding areas on Saturday April 9, 2022.
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Dormaa West District Assembly in the Bono Region, Mr. Francis Kwadwo Oppong has consoled the owners of the properties estimated at 2.6 billion which were destroyed when a severe rainstorm hit Dormaa Yaakrom and its surrounding areas on Saturday, April 9, 2022.
About 40 houses and poultry farms had their roofs ripped off, rendering more than 500 people homeless.
Mr. Oppong on Sunday, April 10, 2022, visited the heavy rainstorm which got many houses including poultry farms affected. Roofs were ripped off, poultry rooms were collapsed.
The DCE together with media men and the District National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO ) officials embarked on the visit to have first-hand information on the gravity of the incident and to console and or comfort the affected persons.
Soireenews.com noted that the absence of tree cover and vegetation, poor roof anchorage, and the use of inferior materials by artisans for construction are the major cause of the rainstorm.
The DCE encouraged the people to plant and grow trees to serve as windbreaks.
At the Ansumana Ouattara and the Unity poultry farms, the DCE said he shared in their loss and pains and assured them of the Assembly's effort to liaise with the Agriculture Ministry and the central government to ameliorate their hardships.
Some of the workers at both farms who spoke to the media said they were astonished upon witnessing such a disaster befall them. Some of them said they had been on the farms for not less than five years but they had not witnessed something of this kind before.
The managers and their workers expressed their gratitude to the people of Yaakrom and Kojokumikrom (Ivory Coast) for their immense contribution to ensuring that the rest of the birds were transferred to another farm in Dormaa Ahenkro.
