The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has announced that it will soon embark on a national exercise to assess old buildings across the country following the collapse of five buildings in Cape Coast in the Central Region.
This, according to the director of NADMO’s Inspectorate Unit, Richard Amo Yartey, is to prevent any further tragic development.
He made these remarks during an interview with Citi News when NADMO presented some relief items to be distributed to disaster victims in Cape Coast.
“Across the country, we don’t have structures collapsing all over the country. But then, this is an eye-opener, a wake-up call for us to start doing some assessment on very old structures which have not seen maintenance for a very long while.
“So that we don’t wake up to hear some of these things happening in other places in Ghana. Cape Coast is going to start, and it has to be replicated in other parts of the country to ensure that old structures that have not seen maintenance for many years do not collapse suddenly, with people dying. It’s very sad that we lost people,” he said.
Meanwhile, the number of municipalities in the Central region affected by flooding has risen from 11 to 14 between Thursday and Friday, according to the latest assessment report by the NADMO.
Flooding in the region has affected over 5,000 victims, with 124 victims displaced as a result of collapsed buildings in Cape Coast, according to the outfit.
The newly affected areas include districts where illegal mining is prevalent.
Source: myghanadaily
