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The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) on Tuesday confirmed the arrival of some victims of the Gbinyiri clash at home communities in the Dormaa West District of Bono Region that share borders with Côte d’Ivoire.
However, the organisation could not confirm whether some of the victims who have fled their homes at Gbinyiri and its environs in the Savannah Region for shelter have sought asylum in Côte d’Ivoire.
Checks reveal that some of the cocoa-growing communities in Dormaa West share borders and have several unapproved routes to Cote d’Ivoire.
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Nkrankwanta, Mr Damiel Naanwinkoma, the Dormaa West District Director of NADMO, said the organisation was yet to gather data on the displaced people.
“We just received information about the arrival of the victims in the district yesterday, and we are collecting information from them and subsequently recommending the kind of humanitarian assistance they need," he said.
Mr Naanwinkoma explained that NADMO gathered that some of the victims had their relations in the district, saying, “We are going down to the victims and carry out an assessment of how the conflict has affected them, engage and talk to their relations as a way of determining how NADMO can intervene to offer assistance”.
“I have even spoken to a mobile money vendor who confirmed to me that seven are perching with him, saying information also confirmed displaced people traveled in some commercial vehicles to the district."
Mr Naanwinkoma added that: “Even though we don't have concrete information about the numbers, I personally saw many of the displaced people in Nkrankwanta and most of them are children and women”.
He said some of the displaced people “look weak and mildly sick” and appealed to the communities to cooperate and support them as NADMO arranged for some relief items for their upkeep.
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