Send help to the people of Keta – Abraham Amaliba implores government
The government has been urged by a member of the legal team of the National Democratic Congress Abraham Amaliba to alleviate the plight of communities affected by the encroachment of the sea by way of tidal waves in areas such as Keta and its environs in the Volta Region.
Mr Amaliba further cautioned the government not to create the situation where most indigenes of the Volta Region would have the perception that because they are the opposition party’s stronghold they would not get any compensation to lighten them up after going through such a situation.
He reminded the government the indigenes there are also taxpayers like any other citizen of Ghana.
Also, he revealed that when indigenes in that same area experienced tidal waves the lawmaker Madam Abla Dzifa Gomashie had to kneel down and beg before the area was able to get some relief items.
Mr Amaliba called on the government to direct an institution like the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) to send relief items to the affected communities in the Volta Region.
According to him sending relief items is the most immediate thing government can do in alleviating the plight of the people affected by the tidal wave in that region.
He then cited climate change as one of the major causes of the tidal waves, which is also occasioned as a result of adverse human behaviour by not being able to preserve the environment as the race came to meet it.
Lawyer Amaliba indicated that the instance where the country should be experiencing harmattan at the latter part of the year but rather the country is experiencing heavy rainfall, to which he said: “the climate change will give you heavy rainfall or more sunshine, these are the effects. And most of them are as a result of our own conduct as human beings”.
“I must say that I am constrained to ask the question whether the Glasgow colloquium was not a talking shop. And so when you narrow it to what happened two days ago in Keta and you could see homes flooded, people had their properties damaged, you begin to ask questions whether leaders are even concerned about the plight of their own people,” Mr Amaliba stated.
Mr Amaliba stressed the need for government to start focusing on how the country can preserve the environment by meting out punishment for people who indulge in acts that go to destroy the environment.
He said this during an interview on November 8, on the heels of the tidal waves that affected communities like Keta and its environs on Saturday, November 6, destroying properties and displacing about 700 people in that area.
“Immediately I think the government should go to the aid of the people of Keta. I don’t want the situation where the people will begin to think that they belong to the opposition stronghold so relief items are not coming and there will be some delay, these are taxpayers,” Mr Amaliba implored.
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