Heavy Rainstorm Renders Hundreds Homeless In Assin Fosu
The Assin District office of the National Management Organisation (NADMO) has taken inventory to enable it to support some households which had their property destroyed during a powerful windstorm accompanied by heavy rains at Assin Fosu.
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
The Assin District office of the National Management Organisation (NADMO) has taken inventory to enable it to support some households which had their property destroyed during a powerful windstorm accompanied by heavy rains at Assin Fosu.
The rains left many residents in the Assin Fosu areas devastated and stranded as their belongings running into hundreds of Cedis were destroyed.
The downpour, which started around 5 pm and lasted for two hours, ripped off roofs of houses, churches, schools, and other buildings in the farming community.
Several shops and houses in Assin Fosu submerged following a two hours torrential rain on Friday around 5 pm.
The rain filled homes and shops up to waist level.
Residents and shop owners are still counting their losses after properties worth millions of Ghana Cedis were destroyed by the rain which lasted for less than three hours.
The affected victims who were wallowing in tears speaking with Soireenews.com blamed their predicament on Shimizu Dai Nippon JV, a construction firm working on National Trunk Road (N8) that stretches from Assin Fosu-Assin Praso.
According to them, the contractor filled the gutters with debris without attending to them and diverted the waterway which overflowed its banks and entered their homes and shops resulting in a loss of properties.
Residents living around Immigration Areas and Fosu main station said they had resided in the area for more than 15 years but had never experienced flooding of that magnitude.
They are therefore calling on authorities to act with immediate effect.
