Thousands Of Houses Submerge Again At Gwira Anibil, Kukuavile & Bamiakor As Assemblymen Call For Relief Items
Interestingly, information available to Soireenews.com indicates that the Gwira Paramount Chief’s Palace at Bamiankor was also not spared by the flood, which left residents in some cases trapped.
Freeman Koryekpor 
The farming communities such as Kukuavele Anibil and Bamiakor, all in Gwira Traditional Area in the Nzema East municipality of the Western Region are now living in water-filled rooms and compounds after being displaced by floods caused by the heavy down poured intermittently for about 11 hours on Saturday July 22, 203.
Interestingly, information available to Soireenews.com indicates that the Gwira Paramount Chief’s Palace at Bamiankor was also not spared by the flood, which left residents in some cases trapped.
No life and properties lost as well as personal buildings were collapsed, but the receding waters wreaked extensive havoc.
Aside from houses, several items, including home appliances, motorbikes, engines, livestock, uncompleted structures, documents and other personal effects running into millions of Ghana cedis, were submerged.
Some of communities and areas badly affected are Kukuavele Anibil and outskirt of Bamiakor among others.
But the residents, who are counting their losses, are yet to receive any relief support from the authorities. They told Soureenews. com that everything has been left in the hands of their chiefs, who are taking control of the situation, in their own way, to ensure their subjects are safe and catered for.
Some of the chiefs, this news outlet has gathered, have taken it upon themselves to lobby individuals, as well as benevolent donors, to secure some foodstuff, such as rice, for the victims to survive on temporarily.
According to them, even though officials at the Nzema East Municipal Assembly are aware of the disaster, they are yet to receive emergency relief items from National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO)
Speaking in an interview with Soireenews.com via telephone on Monday July 24, 2023, the Assembly Member for Kukuavile Electoral Area Honourable George Ebissah and Assembly Member for Bamiakor Anibil Electoral Area, Honourable Matthew Ampong in the Gwira Traditional Area have revealed that their outfit have no immediate relief items to alleviate the plight of flood victims in their areas of jurisdictions.
In the wake of disaster, the two visibly worried Assembly members appealed to the non-governmental organisations, companies and philanthropists for emergency relief items for the thousands of the flood victims in the area.
Honourable Kwasi revealed that more than 3,000 people in over three communities such as Gwira Anibil, Kukuavele and Bamiakor, all in Nzema East municipality are now living in water-filled rooms and compounds after being displaced by floods caused by the heavy down poured intermittently for about 11 hours on Saturday July 22, 203.
The situation, according to him, has rendered many of the residents homeless as they have no place to seek shelter.
Efforts to erect temporary shelters in places such as parks, schools and churches are also being hampered as tracts of lands and those places are all under water, when the River Akonbra overflow it's banks
He told Soireenews.com that some pupils left stranded after the compound of their school at Agbozume was flooded
He asserted that places which never experienced floods in the past were also now submerged.
He lamented that the current situation has brought economic activities in the three areas to a standstill, holding the people hostage in their homes with no hope of relief in sight.
He described the situation in the three areas in Gwira as very bad, and called on the central government through Nzema East municipality and National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) to act promptly to supply relief items like tents and food to the displaced.
Honourable Abissah called for more support for the flood victims and blamed the activities of the illegal small scale mining as the caused of the current floods which had destroyed thousands of the properties in these communities.
He lamented that the affected victims were rocked by severe food shortages, since their farmers were also destroyed by the floods.
The Assembly member was quick to call on the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Nzema East Municipal Assembly, Honourable Dorcas Elizabeth Amoah to devise an emergency efforts to provide relief items to the flood victims
