Gwira Kukuavile Assembly Member Appeals For Relief Items For Flood Victims
The Assembly member explained that the current flooding, which resulted from two weeks of continuous downpour, has caused destruction to several homes in Gwira Traditional Area and cut off several parts of the community from social amenities.
Freeman Koryekpor 
Assembly Member for Kukuavile Electoral Area in the Gwira Traditional Area of the Nzema East Municipality in the Western Region, Honourable George Ebissah Kwasi, has appealed to the non-governmental organisations, companies and philanthropists for emergency relief items for the thousands of the flood victims in the area.
According to him, the pieces of evidence available to them indicate that more than 1,860 people including school children have been tendered homeless in 15 communities within the municipality, following the heavy rainfalls for seven days which had caused Ankobra River to overflow its banks.
The Assembly member explained that the current flooding, which resulted from two weeks of continuous downpour, has caused destruction to several homes in Gwira Traditional Area and cut off several parts of the community from social amenities.
He pointed out that over 250 houses and personal belongings including cars, tricycles, television set, radio sets, mobile phones, monies, livestock, motorbikes and thousands of hectares of standing food crops like rice, onions, tomatoes, cassava, maize, and other vegetables submerged as the road of Gwira Bamiankor were completely taken over by the flood.
Honourable Abissah made the appeal in an interview with Soireenews.com, when this journalist visited some of the hard hit flood communities to inspect and report on the extent of damage caused by the floods.
The fifteen floods worse hit communities are Kukuavele, Attakrom, Ajomoro Eshiem, Bamiankor, Bokro Dominase, Gwira, Akosuno, Gwira Ashiem, Ampansie, ,Wiawso, Awolozo Akango, Duala, Kakukrom, Anibil, all in the Nzema East municipality.
The journalist also covered the donations of items by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Okoben Mining Company Limited, Nana Okoben Amponsah to the victims in affected communities.
He confirmed that some of the floods affected victims were currently staying with friends and relatives, while other were occupying some premises of makeshift structures and churches.
Honourable Abissah called for more support for the flood victims and blamed the activities of the illegal small scale mining as the caused of the current floods which had destroyed thousands of the properties in these communities.
He lamented that the affected victims were rocked by severe food shortages, since their farmers were also destroyed by the floods.
The Assembly member was quick to commend the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Nzema East Municipal Assembly, Honourable Dorcas Elizabeth Amoah for her spirited efforts to respond to their calls to evacuate some flood victims from their homes and relocated them in the premises of some churches and school buildings.
"Our MCE has done well because he worked with the Assembly members and traditional authorities by way of providing the temporary accommodation for persons affected by the current floods in these communities within the municipality
"Although we have never received any emergency relief items from our her outfit, I can on the authority that Honourable Dorcas Elizabeth Amoah deserves commendation because she has showed her good leadership by responding to our calls to give assurances that the Assembly is working with government," she noted.
