NADMO DIRECTOR-GENERAL PRESENTS RELIEF ITEMS TO ASHANTI REGIONAL POLICE COMMAND AND OTHERS
Director-General of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), Eric Nana Agyemang Prempeh, has presented some relief items to the Ashanti Regional Police Command on Tuesday 23rd February, 2021.
According to the Director-General, the presentation was part of the governments’ support to the Regional Police Command since a heavy downpour whisked away the roof of some officer’s quarters and damaged other property, some few days ago.
Mr. Prempeh said the government was ready to support any agency in case of any disaster since it was their mandate.
The relief items included roofing sheets, boxes of cooking oil, bags of rice, plastic cups and plastic buckets.
Others were washing basins, blankets, boxes of laundry soap, mosquito nets and boxes of mosquito coils.
Receiving the items on behalf of the Ashanti Regional Police Command, DCOP David Agyemang Adjem, the Deputy Regional Police Commander, said, the Command was thankful to the President and Government for the gesture, saying, it was timely.
According to him, the downpour rendered some of the officers homeless and promised to use the relief items judiciously to save the situation.
Ashanti New-Town
In another development, the Director- General, visited a compound house at Ashanti New Town in the Manhyia South Sub-Metropolitan District Council which was razed by fire a few days ago, rendering some of the tenants homeless and other property damaged.
Mr. Agyemang Prempeh, after inspecting the scene and sympathizing with the tenants, later presented some relief items to the victims.
The items included packs of roofing sheets, plastic buckets and cups, washing basins and mosquito nets. Others were boxes of cooking oil, boxes of toilet soap, boxes of laundry soap and bags of rice.
He said government was keen in ensuring that every Ghanaian citizen was attended to in any case of emergency and advised them to use certified electrical wires in wiring the house to avert any future fire outbreak.
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