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Barclays Bank to assist Garu-Tempane
District repair damaged bridge
Bolgatanga, Nov. 24, Ghanadot/GNA - Barclays Bank has
pledged to assist the newly created Garu-Tempane District
Assembly in the Upper East Region with an
mount of 75,000 dollars to repair at a least a damaged
bridge caused by the recent flood in the area.
It has therefore charged the Assembly to identify a worse
damaged bridge in the area for the commencement of the
repairs.
The Communication Officer in-charge of Red Cross Ghana and
the Regional Secretary of the Red Cross Ghana, Ms Mina
Agyeman and Abarike Joseph Azumah jointly disclosed this in
an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Bolgatanga after
distributing some relief items to the flood victims in the
Region.
The explained that through Red Cross Ghana a lot of partners
were responding positively and contributing to assist the
flood victims in the three northern regions.
The relief items which included bags of rice and maize,
gallons of cooking oil, soap, blankets, mats, buckets,
tarpaulins, sleeping mats, gari, beans, jerry cans, among
others, worth 1.7 billion cedis.
Mr Agyeman said the Districts, which benefited from the
relief items were Bongo, Bawku East, Garu-Tempane and Builsa
Districts.
She explained that some communities in the Northern Region,
including six communities in the West Mamprusi, six in
Savalugu-Nanton and eleven in the Saboba-Cheriponi Districts
had also benefited from the exercise, which was still
on-going.
She stated that the second phase of the distribution
exercise in the two Regions would include farming implements
and building materials.
The Regional Secretary of Red Cross mentioned Barclays Bank,
China Red Cross, Iranian Red Cross, International France
Cooperation, Italian Government, Stratcom Africa Havilak who
had contributed immensely to the aid of the flood victims
and commended them for their contribution.
The Upper East Regional Minister, Mr Alhassan Samari,
thanked Red Cross for always responding positively to
emergency situation, especially the recent flood that hit
the Region.
He indicated that, so far in terms of distribution of relief
items to the three Northern Regions, Upper East had done it
perfectly but cautioned the beneficiaries not to sell the
items in the markets since when caught would be sanctioned.
GNA
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