More than 250 rendered homeless
More than 250 people have been rendered homeless in two communities in the Bosomtwe District of Ashanti after a heavy rainstorm Sunday evening.
No death however, was recorded in Kokodie and Jachie after the rainstorm which also swept across the Ashanti region.
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The rainstorm which started around 5:00 pm lasted about 30 minutes and left in its trail destruction of many properties and food crops.
Kokodie
The worse affected community, Kokodie, a poor farming community in the district saw the roofs of 16 houses ripped and the roofs of two schools partly blown off.
Whereas the Kokodie D/A Junior High School had part of its roof blown off, the Methodist Primary School suffered heavily as the storm led to the entire school building developing serious cracks as well as parts of the roof ripped off.
The structure now poses great danger to life and could collapse anytime.
The head teacher of the Methodist Primary School told Graphic Online that the current state of the building makes it unsafe for use as classrooms and said they would be forced to close down the school each time it threatened to rain to avoid any form of disaster.
He appealed to the District Assembly to urgently come to their rescue.
The Unit Committee Secretary of Kokodie, Mr Bernard Appiah-Kubi said the storm has brought untold hardship into the lives of many residents as they have lost most of their belongings such as clothing, accommodation and food stuff.
Jachie
Families rendered homeless are sheltering with friends.
Mr Joseph Osei, Deputy Coordinator at the Bosomtwe office of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) confirmed the reports and said they had completed an assessment report on the disasters and forwarded to the Ashanti regional office of NADO for relief items.
He however lamented the state of most buildings in the Kokodie community which had developed serious cracks and posed danger to their occupants.
The Deputy Coordinator hinted that following the state of the buildings in the community it had a meeting with all landlords in the Kokodie community on Monday over the threats posed by the hanging, dilapidated and cracked buildings and urged them to pull them down.
The Chief of Deduako, a nearby community, Nana Agyei Panin II, who had paid a visit to the affected people was not happy with the slow response by the Bosomtwe District Assembly towards such a disaster.