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Forty-eight mud houses collapsed at Asubone Rail and Ohenakuraa in the Kwahu West Municipality following a nine-hour heavy downpour last Monday when three Rivers, Ntoriwaa, Akawronsu and Wansabiampa around the communities overflowed their banks.Over 351 people were displaced and are now putting up in churches, cocoa sheds, and with friends and relatives.Mr Seth Adjei-Baah, the Member of Parliament for Nkawkaw and the Municipal Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), Mr Eugene Akwawuah, visited the two towns and other flooded areas at Nkawkaw to assess the damage.Mr Adjei-Baah presented 10 bags of rice, 20 bales of second-hand clothing, 60 plastic bowls and blankets to the affected people.The Municipal NADMO Coordinator said over 800 people at Nkawkaw were rendered homeless when 87 houses were submerged.In another development the assembly member for Fodoa/Kofidedeh electoral area, Mr Kwadwo Boateng, also reported that a wooden bridge over River Asona on the Kofidedeh-Aprahweim road had been washed away.He said teachers who mostly lived at Kofidedeh could not go to school and called a new bridge to be built.Source: GNA/Ghana
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