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Burkina Faso dams to open to allow water into White Volta
Tamale, July 2, Ghanadot/GNA - Authorities in Burkina Faso
have alerted the Northern Regional Coordinating Council (RCC)
that their dams were full and they would be compelled to
open them to allow the water to flow into the White Volta.
Alhaji Mustapha Ali Idris, Northern Regional Minister,
announced this on Tuesday at a reception hosted by the RCC
for senior citizens to mark this year's republic day.
He, therefore, urged people living along the riverbanks,
especially farmers to move upstream to avoid any disaster as
occurred during last years floods, which destroyed several
hectares of farmland, houses and property in the three
Northern Regions and rendered several people homeless.
The Regional Minister also charged all the Metropolitan,
Municipal and District Chief Executives in the region to
ensure that measures were put in place to avoid any
causality should the excess water from Burkina Faso flood
the rivers and tributaries in the region.
At the reception, the Minister also urged politicians to
campaign on issues and avoid playing on the ethnic and
factional emotions of people saying that: "It is
counter-productive to be beating war drums and continue to
incite or make provocative utterances that tend to deepen
divisions and cause strife".
He said Ghanaians were a peace loving people who should not
allow their country to degenerate into the Kenyan or
Zimbabwean situations.
Several prominent senior citizens, including Hajia Adisah
Munkaila, former member of the Council of State and Mr James
Bakari and Mr Seidu Seini both retired educationist were
honoured for their socio-economic contributions to the
country.
GNA
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