Upper East Regional Director of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), Jerry Asomani, has revealed no resident in the region has been rendered homeless after the Bagre Dam spillage.
He revealed the only destruction suffered in the Upper East as a result of the spillage, coupled with heavy rains are farmlands of residents.
“It is not true that people have no place to go after the dam spillage. After the spillage of the Bagre Dam on September 1, the volumes of water spread outward to farmlands and there has been massive destruction, forcing farmers to harvest crops prematurely.
We have not seen any displacement and the few which were affected by the floods have been taken in by their neighbors. There have not been any major displacement but the destruction of farmlands have been massive,” he told Sefah-Danquah, host of Happy98.9FM’s ‘Epa Hoa Daben’ political talk show.
According to him, the spillage has become a yearly affair which residents in Upper East have prepared for.
With the Bagre dam spillage receding, NADMO is afraid flooding in the region will still continue due to heavy rainfall being experienced.
Farmers operating along the downstream areas of the White and the Black Volta rivers are bearing the brunt of the spillage of excess water from the Bagre and the Kompienga dams in Burkina Faso, as hundreds of hectares of farmland have been submerged by floodwaters.
No life has been lost, but rice, millet and sorghum farms have been completely wiped out and affected farmers are at their wits’ end as to what to do.
The situation, which has affected a number of communities in the Mamprugu/Moaduri District and the West Mamprusi municipality in the North East Region, has been compounded by torrential rains.
