Stop This Wicked Behaviour, You Are Stupid And Putting Akufo-Addo And NPP Govt In Shame—Womtumi Blasted Over Attacks On Flood Victims In Volta Region
Chairman Womtumi has verbally insulted these persons in the Volta Region who were worse-hit by the current flood disaster following the spillage of excess water from the Akosombo and Akuse dams by the Volta River Authority (VRA).
Freeman Koryekpor 
THE ASHANTI Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party(NPP), Mr Bernard Antwi Boasiako popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, has been strpped naked for verbally attacking thousands of the people living in the communities along the banks of the Volta River in the North, Central and South Tongu districts.
Chairman Womtumi has verbally insulted these persons in the Volta Region who were worse-hit by the current flood disaster following the spillage of excess water from the Akosombo and Akuse dams by the Volta River Authority (VRA).
"Akosombo Dam Spillage, Womtumi why are politising this senior matters," they angrily asked him.
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The NPP firebrand in recent outburst warned the people in the Volta Region to stop calling for the NPP for and go to the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Chairman Womtumi was quoted to have stated that "You don't vote for us but expect us to help you when there's a disaster. Go to NDC for help, Don't disturb Nana Addo." Womtumi to residents affected by the Akosombo Dam Spillage.
However, the statement of the NPP leading member didn't sit well with the people in the Volta Region and majority of well-wishing Ghanaians who have came out boldly to condemn Chairman Womtumi.
In a video which went viral in local and social media platforms, a concerned Ghanaian was seen condemning Chairman Womtumi for politising the very serious flood disaster which has rocked many people in the communities along the lower Volta basin.
"Why can one sees this level of demand caused after the spillage of excess water from the Akosombo and Akuse Dams and have a right thinking person politicizing this pressing disaster.
"For Womtumi to say that the people of the Volta Region should suffer because they don't vote for the NPP and they should not call out to the NPP government when such serous damage has been caused by the spillage, l think it very very to say that it is very stupid. Is that where our governance system has gotten to in Ghana," the man angrily said.
He continued that " It that where the governance has gotten to, in such that depending on how a place votes that is where the government would pay attention to their needs. Is that where our politics have gotten to! Look it is not funny, some of these things were not funny. People have lost their properties. I feared some people might even died as a result of the flood disaster.
And what you can say Womtumi is that people should died because they don't vote for the NPP. Wow. Charley these people cannot continue to be in political power ooo...l mean this can be," man was heard in the video to have stated.
In an interview with some affected flooded victims about the Chairman Womtumi's outburst, they described as a nation wrecker and primitive politician whose actions were putting the government of NPP under President Akufo-Addo into shame and disgrace.
According to them, it is disgusting and shameful for the right thinking Ghanaian like Chairman Womtumi to politicize this flooding disaster in Volta region, saying the region is cosmopolitan place.
They noted that they didn't blamed Chairman Womtumi because they realized that he not a learner person to know much about the real people living in the region.
"We are telling Chairman Womtumi now that the Volta Region is now the cosmopolitan place which is full of people from many different countries and cultures. We more Ashantis who are living in the three districts of the Volta Region which were worse hit of the flood disaster following the spillage," the schooled Chairman Womtumi.
Mincing no words, the voltarians called on President Nana Addi Dankwa Akufo-Addo and leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to, immediately come out publicly to distance themselves from the current attacks on the people of Volta Region by the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party.
Communities along the lower Volta basin have said they have paid too much price for sacrificing to power the nation.
They said since the construction of the Akosombo and Kpong dams, downstream communities had experienced varied and persistent forms of ecological, economic, health and social crises just for sacrificing to have the river dammed to generate power for the nation.
“We feel that this is too much a price to pay for our sacrifice to power the nation. We demand that while in the immediate term, the humanitarian catastrophe is dealt with, in the medium to long term, the state agencies responsible for the problems the communities are facing must engage the people to find a people-centered solution to these enduring crises,” the Chairman of the Mepe Development Association (MDA), Kojo Mawulenu Fabian, told the Daily Graphic.
Thousands of communities along the banks of the Volta River in the North, Central and South Tongu districts in the Volta Region are reeling under the devastating effects of the disaster that has impacted livelihoods of the people negatively as they bear the brunt of the spillage of excess water from the two dams by the Volta River Authority (VRA).
Thousands of homes have been submerged in the flood, destroying properties worth millions of cedis, with many rendered homeless. Mepe has been the worst hit.
Inter-Ministerial Committee
Meanwhile, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has constituted an Inter-Ministerial Committee to address the Volta dam spillage-induced flooding.
“Headed by the Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, the committee will coordinate the government’s response to the unfortunate flooding of some communities,” a statement issued by the Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, who is also a member of the committee, said.
Other members of the committee include the Minister of National Security, Albert Kan-Dapaah, Minister for the Interior, Ambrose Dery, Minister of Defence, Dominic Nitiwul, the Minister of Energy, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, and the Minister of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, Dan K. Botwe.
The rest are the Minister of Works and Housing, Francis Asenso-Boakye; the Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwesi Amoako Atta; the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Kwaku Afriyie; the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Freda Prempeh; the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, and the Minister of Information.
More emergency supplies
The people of Mepe entreated the government and its relevant agencies to speed up relief efforts to alleviate the plight of the people.
Mr Fabian said the thousands of displaced people urgently needed food supplies, drinking water, temporary accommodation facilities, medical interventions and clothing to prevent the already deplorable situation from further aggravation.
Looming disaster
The association said there was a looming health crisis following the flooding of toilet facilities and refuse dumps.
“The river has been heavily contaminated leaving many, who depend on its water for cooking, drinking and other domestic uses, in a difficult situation,” the Chairman of the MDA told the Daily Graphic.
He said the situation had become dire because pipe-borne water had been shut down alongside widespread power cuts.
Mr Fabian described the situation as the worst since the 1965 flooding disaster that occurred following the construction of the Akosombo Dam.
“We are appealing for support from concerned individuals, organisations and other interested parties for the victims of the disaster in these trying moments,” he said.
Volunteers
The MDA Chairman expressed appreciation for the communal spirit and support exhibited by the youth and volunteers for the flood victims.
He said by so doing, they had saved lives and salvaged properties, urging “let us continue to be one another’s keeper and keep faith alive. We shall overcome”.
MP
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Tongu, Alexander Gabby Hottordze, said the people of the Tongu area had sacrificed their lives for the construction of the Akosombo Dam 60 years ago, and were still suffering the consequences of their sacrifice.
He appealed to relevant state institutions and philanthropists to come and assist the victims.
The Assembly Member of the Sokpoe Electoral Area in South Tongu, Edmund Fingero Dikah, who led the media to some of the affected places, said precautionary measures should be taken to protect the Sogakope Bridge from collapse in the near future.
Mawupemor Fiagbenu, a victim at Siamekope, who has relocated to New Bakpa in the Central Tongu District, appealed to the VRA, the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) and the district assemblies in the lower Volta basin to come together and find lasting solution to the yearly spillage of water from the dams.
She said the spillage of the dams had worsened their plight in the midst of the difficult economic situation in the country as they had lost almost everything from physical cash, farms, clothes, children’s school stationery and textbooks, documents, among others.
On behalf of the people evacuated from Siamekope, Avadiwoekome and Bekpo, Ms Fiagbenu said the psychological trauma was even worse.
“To be honest with you, none of us here is in any better frame of mind. In the first place, this New Bakpa, where you have seen us, is not our own place. We have been brought here for days now through the collaboration of the assembly, NADMO and VRA,” she said.
“As a matter of fact, we have been disturbed to be brought here without any form of accommodation,” Ms Fiagbenu lamented.
“Let me say that apart from the school books and other materials, our children go to school at Adidome and due to the displacement and the way the water is moving, they wouldn’t be able to go to school,” she complained.
A young victim from Bekpo, Janet Mansah Nyagblordjro, said most of them just started making some progress in life, and that what had happened to them had set them back.
She said VRA did not give them enough prior information on the spillage, otherwise they would have relocated to nearby communities to avoid what she described as a “calamity.”
