Akosombo Dam Spillage: You peddled falsehood -Ablakwa to Sanitation Minister - MyJoyOnline

The North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has lambasted the Sanitation and Water Resources Minister, Freda Prempeh for saying that victims of the Akosombo Dam-induced floods refused to evacuate when they were asked to.

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Sanitation Minister, Freda Prempeh should stop peddling falsehoods from the pit of hell.There was absolutely no effort by government to evacuate the over 30,000 people affected by the VRA-induced floods?

"Sanitation Minister, Freda Prempeh should stop peddling falsehood from the pit of hell.

The Sanitation and Water Resources Minister, Freda Prempeh has blamed victims of the floods induced by the spillage of the Akosombo Dam for not heeding early warnings by the Volta River Authority and other state agencies to evacuate.

She noted that “the Akosombo dam spillage, even though Volta River Authority, National Disaster Management Organisation, the Water Resources Commission, came together to educate the people in the community and did simulation exercises with them even at Mepe, they refused to leave

The water in the whole area is contaminated and the Ghana Water Company and Water Resources Commission would have to spend millions of money to treat the water before we can pass it through our pipes.”

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