A four-year-old boy drowned in a dam in Yizesi in the Mamprugu Moaduri District of the North East Region. The dam is believed to be part of the government's 'one village one dam' initiative.
The incident happened on Friday, June 10, 2022, at about 1 PM when the boy and his colleagues had gone to the dam side to swim.
An eyewitness revealed that the children always go there to swim despite the warning from parents not to be going there.
According to the residents, this is the first time the dam started collecting water after it was dug during the dry season.
Meanwhile, the paternal uncle of the deceased, James Adams has disclosed that the chief of the community, Naa Balingu Abubakari has been warning parents not to allow the children go near the dam.
"The incident happened on Friday. The children have been advised by their parents not to be going there after it was announced by the community chief, but unfortunately, the children went there to swim and ended up drowning. This is the first the dam has claimed a life," James Adams said.
According to the paternal uncle, the four-year-old boy was buried yesterday in line with Islamic traditions.
read also: Ghana needs rescuing - Johnson Asiedu Nketia.
The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has said that Ghana needs rescuing from the current government.
Speaking during the NDC’s 30th anniversary event in Accra, General Mosquito, as he is popularly known, explained that Ghana’s situation, as espoused by the author of a book titled “The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers The Future,” shows that it is in a great abyss and should be saved.
“If there is anybody here who doubts whether Ghana needs to be rescued at all, I just want to leave you a quotation which are picked from the words of Prof Joseph… in his book, ‘The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers The Future’. Compare the situation we're in today and draw your own conclusion but I believe you agree with us that this nation actually needs to be rescued.
“When you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods but in (sic), when you see that men get richer by (sic) than by work, and more importantly, your laws don’t protect you against them but the laws protect them against you. When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming self-sacrifice, you will know that your society is doomed,” he said.
The NDC was established by the late former President of Ghana, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings on June 10, 1992.
The party has since produced two presidents since Rawlings, namely John Evans Atta Mills, and John Dramani Mahama.
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