7th anniversary of June 3rd Disaster: Govt to invest $200m to resolve flood, sanitation problems.
Today denotes the seventh Anniversary of the June 3 twin catastrophe which guaranteed more than 150 lives following flooding and a blast at the Goil Filling Station at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, diving the entire country into an authority three-day public grieving.
Hours after that dark Wednesday occurrence, the roads of the capital from the mishap scene were covered with bodies while some were found in channels taking specialists weeks to get the remainders free from the fiasco.
Funeral homes were blocked with bodies and emergency clinic specialists were overpowered with losses from the nation's most exceedingly terrible ever calamity, leaving its permanent scars still new on the personalities of Ghanaians.
As the country recalls the people in question, the public authority in a joint effort with World Bank is financial planning $200 million to execute Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development (GARID) venture to address the flood and disinfection challenges.
The Minister of Works and Housing, Francis Asenso-Boakye, in a proclamation, vowed that the "Akufo-Addo government stays focused on regarding the memory of our left companions by proceeding and strengthening the endeavors to find enduring answers for the lasting flooding difficulties in Accra and the nation over".
read also: NDC replaces more than 3,000 members’ cards in Dormaa Central.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has given in excess of 3,000 new Party cards out of 4,000 pieces got to individuals in the Dormaa Central Constituency of Bono Region.
Mr George Adu, the Constituency Chairman of the Party told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in a meeting at Dormaa-Ahenkro that the motivation behind the card's substitution practice was to empower simple distinguishing proof of genuine and serious individuals from the Party.
Mr Adu made sense of it would likewise work with the accessibility of information to decide the Party's solidarity to dependably illuminate crusade procedures and compelling preparation and association of allies at the electorate and branch levels towards the 2024 electioneering.
He said the Party has projected to enlist around 20,000 individuals, saying that a different register had been given to permit to new individuals who needed to enroll and join the party as steadfast and committed individuals to do as such.
Mr Adu said the activity was being completed in excess of 115 branches, adding new appointive regions to be made by the Electoral Commission would be finished too.
Source: GNA
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