Maphlix supports dam spillage victims

One of the leading producers and exporters of fresh vegetables, Maphlix Trust Ghana Limited has donated farm produce and other items valued at GH¢30,000 to flood victims in the Viepe-Tokor Electoral Area, Ketu South who were hit by the Akosombo dam spillage.

Items donated included boxes of sweet potatoes, tubers of yam, some quantities of beans, maize, pawpaw and tomatoes meant to offer temporary relief to the people in flood-hit communities of the electoral area.

Maphlix Trust Farms is  located in Tadzewu in the Volta region.

Presenting the items, Managing Director (MD), Maphlix Trust Limited, Dr Felix Mawuli Kamassah said the donation was his family’s widow’s mite to the people devastated by the floods and hoped it would help alleviate their burden.

Dr Kamassah expressed concern about the health implications the flooding could have in the affected communities and urged parents to be cautious and take care of their young ones to avoid casualties.

“Let’s take care of the children who are our future leaders. Let’s be mindful we don’t send them to places where they’re likely to drown. Also important is the need to practice personal hygiene to stay healthy in these difficult times,” he charged the inhabitants.

Assembly Man  for the area, Mr Victor Ayaku  thanked Dr Kamassah and his wife for “looking favourably upon my people, who have been badly affected by the dam spillage.”

“We’re grateful for your benevolence and it’s our prayer that God replenishes you, so we get to benefit more. We’re still appealing for more from other individuals and groups to put smiles on the faces of my people. The floods have displaced many people , who are now staying with friends and family. And already, there are reports of small quarrels over food and space, “ he added

So, we need realistic help like shelter and food for our people now while measures like the dredging of the Logui and Aleta ponds at Hatsukope and Aletame respectively to absorb the water coupled with construction of a drainage system to direct the flood waters, should be looked at as lasting solution to the flooding situation in my electoral area.

Some of the flood victims from about 60 households who benefitted from the donation thanked the couple for their kind gesture and lamented that they were really devastated by the floods.

They called for need increased support in the form of shelter and food for  the flood victims and called for the dredging of the Logui and Aleta ponds at Hatsukope and Aletame respectively to absorb the water.

The victims appealed to authorities to help construct a drainage system to direct the flood waters to serve as a lasting solution to the flooding situation in that electoral area.