Rainstorm displaces residents of Bimbila
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- 10 May 2023
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About a thousand individuals, including students, have been uprooted from their homes in the Nanumba North Municipality and Mion District of the Northern Region, after a rainstorm ravaged the area last Saturday. Numerous residential buildings, educational facilities, healthcare centers, security installations, and other assets, with a combined value of millions of Ghanaian cedis, were destroyed in the wake of the storm. Nonetheless, there were no reported casualties.
Following the disaster, several of the uprooted individuals have been forced to take shelter in churches and mosques, while others remain stranded. The Daily Graphic discovered that the municipality of Bimbila, the capital of Nanumba North, was particularly hard hit, with a significant number of homes being left roofless or entirely demolished. The damage was particularly severe in Dangbe, Masaaka, Baayanwaya, and Kapuhi.
The rainstorm also wreaked havoc on the buildings belonging to a number of institutions, including the Electoral Commission, the Ghana National Fire Service, and the Ghana Immigration Service. Meanwhile, in the Mion District's farming community of DC Kura, the storm caused extensive damage, including the destruction of six schools, 23 houses, and other assets.
The Municipal Chief Executive for Nanumba North, Abdulai Yakubu, informed the Daily Graphic that the National Disaster Management Organization had already begun assessing the extent of the damage. "NADMO has initiated an assessment, but the damage is quite extensive. A number of homes have been completely destroyed, with roofs ripped off and walls collapsed," he said.
Mr. Yakubu added that the assembly and NADMO were working to quickly mobilize relief items for the affected individuals, although he noted that the items might not be sufficient to meet their needs, given the magnitude of the disaster.
Samuel Mahama, the District Chief Executive for Mion, toured the affected areas on Sunday and appealed to the government and other philanthropists in the region to provide aid to those affected. Several victims who spoke with the Daily Graphic expressed their frustration at being left stranded with their families after the disaster had left their homes uninhabitable.
