Tettegu Assembly Member Calls On GWCL To Check Water Spillage From Weija Dam
Severe Hunger or food insecurity has Rocked 1000 Flood Residents In Tettegu after the water spillage from the Weija dam by the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL).
Freeman Koryekpor 
Assembly Member for Tettegu Electoral Area, Mr Bright Kwame Adabra has appealed to the Weija-Gbawe Municipal Chief (MCE), Mr Patrick Kwasi Brako Kumor and Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Mrs Tina Gifty Naa Ayeley Mensah to impress upon the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) to careful check and control its water spillage to the banks of the dam to help prevent flooding situations in the catchment areas to the dam.
According to him, they are not against the decision of the GWCL to spill excess water from the Weija Dam to maintain the integrity of the dam but it must be done care.
He stressed that it is high time for the management of GWCL to attach human face to the way and manner it spills excess water from Weija Dam to its banks any dam overflow during the rainy season.
"In fact this is a very serious floods which have rocked the entire residents in Tettegu old and new towns for the past twenty years (20) years we are living in the area.
"All the previous years, the GWCL has been spilling excess water from Weija Dam and that although it caused some floods in part of Tettegu, but it has never been the whole Tettegu old and new towns. We have never experienced this severe one before," he lamented.
Speaking in an interview with Soireenews.com,
Mr Adabra whose house was flooded debunked assertion of the residents that they were not given prior notice before the spillage of the excess water from the Waija dam.
According to him, they were given noticed by the GWCL through National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), explaining that the notice has came late for them to prepare fully for the spillage of the dam.
But the Assembly member was to send save my soul (SOS) messages to the central government, corporate institutions, non-governmental organisations and philanthropists to come to their aid.
About one thousand-three hundred (1,300) residents living in Tettegu old and new towns have been displaced by flooding caused by the Weija Dam spillage by Ghana Company Limited (GWCL) for which majority of the affected residents complained of living in severe hunger or food insecurity.
This online news portal was informed that
at least fifteen houses collapsed while the whole Tettegu old and new towns were flooded. Shops, kiosks, drinking spots, chop bars are also got submerged.
Properties including personal effects, household items, stored food such as maize and gari worth millions of cedis have been destroyed.
No human casualty was recorded but some livestock reportedly died.
A visit by this reporter to Tettegu on Thursday October 6, 2022, showed that majority of the affected residents were sheltered at the buildings of the various churches within the area while sone them were currently sleeping on the open places within the area under peris of weather.
The scores of the affected residents interviewed by Soireenews.com stated that they were moved from Tettegu to stay with their relatives at Gbawe Top Beach, lamenting that they lost their properties in the floods.
According to the residents, although there have been annual flooding disasters occurring in the community, the current floods were very severed, disasterous and heartbreaking.
"Many of the residents had left our various houses and currently living with our relatives in others communities. But some of us who are living in Tettegu transformer area have came here this morning to check whether the water has gone away from our houses so that we come back to occupy our houses.
"But what we can see was that our houses have still flooded" the visibly distraught residents told Soireenews.com on Thursday morning of October 6, 2022.
They indicated that their economic activities were affected by the current floods disaster.
According to them, when it was night they moved to Tettegu bridge river side to have our bath."
They stated that their clothes were all wet in the water, lamenting that some of them don't have shirts or dresses to wear, and that we wore one dress for the past three days."
They disclosed to this reporter that since they were displaced by the flooding water they were rocked with severe food shortage, lamenting that they are currently living or sleeping in hunger.
"Even foods for us to eat are our problem now, and that we are calling on the government and other corporate institutions to swiftly come our aid to safe us from this pressing problems, the affected residents appealed.
They said "we never seen this flood before since we are staying in this area for the past 20 years ago.
"This year's flood is very severe that we the inhabitants of the area were affected. We have not been informed by the management of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) before it spilled the water from the Weija dam," the residents stressed.
"We realized that the rain has fallen for long time, no information from the GWCL and the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) but what we seen was that the GWCL has spilled the excessive water from dam which has caused disaster in our area.
"We are currently living in danger. As is it now we all need an urgent support from the state authorities and the corporate institutions because our properties have been destroyed by the floods," lamented.
Against this background, the residents stated that “We the residents of over five thousand (5000) population in Tetegu are appealing to authorities through Assembly Member Honourable Bright Kwame Adabra, for the construction of drains.
According to them, any time there are heavy downpours, many parts of the Tettegu floods resulting to the loss of properties running to millions of Ghana cedis.
They sent a save of soul messages to state authorities to put up measures to fix flood-prone-Tettegu areas because the situation caused by the flooding waters is gradually escalating.
They stated that the major areas within Tettegu which needs drains are Wassman Rasta Ayalolo School Area, Ghana Flag Tetegu Old Town, Tsidi Kopeme, Maimi, island city and Anwiawia.
However, the government has ongoing projects such as construction of a new clinic, sanitation facility and a school has come to halt due to unmotorable road access and unavailable drains.
They lamented that sometimes the flooding situation is serious to the extent that property owners with cars cannot access their home to safely park their cars which has resulted in over 15 cars broken into and parts stolen due to them parking at the roadside.
