MP FOR TALENSI SUPPORTS FLOOD VICTIMS (PAGE 13, OCT 6, 2010)

THE Member of Parliament for Talensi in the Upper East Region, Mr John Tia Akologo, has presented a large quantity of relief items to the flood victims of Balungu, Pwalugu, Sheaga, Yinduri and Namoligo, all communities in his constituencies.
Mr Akologo who is also the Minister of Information presented a truck load of 15 bales of clothing for women, children and men; 40 bags of rice, 20 bags of beans, 10 bags of millet, 20 cartons of cooking oil, 30 packets of roofing sheets, 10 packets of roofing nails, 1,000 plastic buckets and basins, 100 pieces of kerosene lanterns and 100 pieces of poly mats to his constituents.
At Balungu, Mr Akologo interacted with the family of a first-year Junior High School student, Master Atampugre Atuuna, who got drowned in a river during the floods and donated relief items to them.
He made a similar presentation to a bereaved family at Namoligo who lost their relatives during the floods.
Accompanied by District Chief Executive for Talensi-Nabdam, Madam Viviane Anafo, the Regional Co-ordinator for NADMO, Mr Patrick Akake, district officers of NADMO as well as constituency executives of the NDC, the MP toured the various communities to commiserate with the victims and present the items to help ameliorate their suffering.
The MP appealed to the people to collaborate with the task force in charge of the distribution of the items and said he would do his best to get more items to assist the displaced people.
He also spoke of the government’s plans to put in place a mechanism to harvest the water that is accumulated annually as a result of heavy rains and the opening of the spillways of the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso for both hydro generation and irrigated farming.
The DCE for the area, Madam Anafo, commended the MP for complementing the efforts of the government to support the people who have been hit by the floods.