The government has launched a resettlement program for communities affected by the Akosombo Dam spillage.
Led by the Ministry of Works and Housing, this initiative aims to provide new homes for individuals whose residences were destroyed by the floods.
Data from the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) indicates that more than 5,200 households in 19 districts along the Volta River in the Volta, Eastern, Greater Accra, and Oti Regions were impacted by the floods.
Minister-designate of Works and Housing, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, stated that the entire resettlement project is expected to be completed within six months.
“The construction of the resettlement homes is going to take some months and nothing less than about six months for us to make some significant headway in this exercise and we ask for everyone’s patience as we go through it. We are already starting about a hundred and our final validation will give us the backstock numbers.”