NADMO workers
to enjoy improved service conditions
Accra, May 18, Ghanadot/GNA
- Mr. Cletus Avorka, Minister for Interior, announced that
government would improve conditions of service, including
salary increase for workers of the National Disaster
Management Organization (NADMO).
He said details of the package were being worked on and the
conditions would be rolled out when work on them was
finished.
Mr. Avorka disclosed these when he paid a working visit to
the NADMO Headquarters in Accra on Monday, to acquaint
himself with challenges facing the staff.
He said government’s effort was to ensure that conditions of
service for NADMO staff were commensurate with the work they
were doing to motivate them to work harder to avert
disasters.
Mr. Avorka said apart from salary increment, resources and
logistics needed to manage or prevent disasters would be
made available for NADMO to enhance its disaster prevention.
He said operations of NADMO were crucial to the country's
development and government was confident that with the right
incentives, the organisation could work effectively.
He said Ghana was vulnerable to floods, earthquakes,
bushfires, climate change among others and the country’s
survival depended on the adaptation of appropriate
strategies to prevent such disasters.
Mr. Avorka urged the NADMO to give early warning signs to
enable people prepare adequately for disasters to save lives
and property when they occurred.
He commended the Organization for embarking on educational
drive through media programmes adding "disaster management
cannot be undertaken when there is no teamwork and
discipline".
Mr. Kofi Portuphy, National Coordinator of NADMO announced
that a West African Disaster Management Institute, which
would use satellite to pick signals from space on weather
patterns would be built in Ghana to serve the entire
sub-region.
Mr. Portuphy said NADMO had identified several flood prone
areas in the country and was educating residents of the
affected areas on safety measures to adopt to avert its
devastating effects when it struck.
He assured that NADMO had equipment and materials on hand to
be able to avert any form of disasters in the country.
GNA
