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| A volunteer carrying a woman across flood waters |
About 30 communities in the
Adaklu district of the Volta region have been cut off from the rest of the district
following heavy downpour last week which flooded roads and farmlands in the
area.
Major roads linking the
district capital; Adaklu Waya to Mafi-Kumasi, Ziope, and Agortime-Kpetoe were
completely submerged by flood waters.
The perennial disaster which
is caused by the spillage of Waya and Tordze rivers in the area rendered the
district capital, where the only Clinic and Senior High school are situated inaccessible
to residents including students and public servants staying outside the
district.
Togbui Lablulu Tegbeza V, chief
Adaklu-Waya, said the situation nearly caused the lives of two pregnant women
who were in labour in one of the adjourning communities last Sunday, but for
the intervention of some youngmen in the area who have to carry a midwife
shoulder high across the flood waters to attend to the women.
He noted that similar flooding
in 2011 which claimed the life of one person compelled the late President Atta Mills
to visit the area, who promise the construction of the main bridge across the
river as well as the roads in the area.
