Flood waters kill one person in Upper East(25th August 2011 04:55:22 by Benjamin Xornam Glover)

One person is reported dead in Timonde in the Bawku West District in the Upper East Region after he was swept away by flood waters.
Identified as Nehemia Apakiba Akolgo, 14, and a nephew of a former MP for Zebilla, John Ndebugre, the boy was carried away by flood waters after he was alleged to have fallen into the White Volta.

Reports indicated that Nehemia, in the company of others who were herding cattle, had gone into their farmlands along the White Volta to harvest some corn when the incident occurred.

The body has since been retrieved and buried after an autopsy.

Meanwhile, the Upper East Regional Co-ordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Mr Patrick Akake, told the Daily Graphic in an interview that his office was still conducting an assessment of the extent of damage caused by the floods in the Bolgatanga municipality.

He said initial information gathered by his staff in the various zones in the Bolgatanga municipality as of Wednesday, August 24, 2011 showed that 3,047 persons had been displaced in the Bolgatanga municipality as a result of the floods.

He said NADMO had also distributed relief items, mainly bags of maize and mattresses to the affected persons while personnel of the department had been put on stand-by to assist residents who would be in need.