The National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) has informed victims of the Odawna fire, their outfit can only provide them with the basic support they need and nothing else.
According to NADMO, their mandate is to provide a stop-gap measure to victims of a disaster and that is what they can do for shop owners at Odawna.
“With such a disaster, we have to investigate and know what we can support them with. In this case, they’ve lost their livelihood and at such a time, we just give them the stopgap measure which is the basic support. But we can’t support them to rebuild their businesses”.
The Communications Director for NADMO George Ayisi said this in an interview with Samuel Eshun, host of the Happy Morning Show aired on e.TV Ghana and Happy 98.9 FM.
He, however, added, “The President says the NBSSI will support them and that is good news”.
He disclosed how victims of the fire jovially told NADMO officials they do not want rice when they went to assess the damage at the Odawna market. “The people even told us they don’t want rice and all from us but they wanted support from the NBSSI to resuscitate their businesses”.
The Odawna market near the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange in Accra was gutted by fire at dawn on Wednesday, November 18, 2020 destroying properties worth thousands of cedis.
President Akufo-Addo visited the market to solidarize with the traders who lost their wares and stalls in the fire outbreak early Wednesday morning.
According to him, through the NBSSI, support is going to be provided to the over 3,000 persons affected by the fire, within two weeks.
By: Joel Sanco
