The Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur has expressed government’s determination to equip disaster institutions to rapidly deal with disasters in times of emergency. He said a substantial investment has been made over the years to position the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) as a reliable institution to deal with disasters across the country. The Vice President made these remarks when he embarked on an official tour of some of the flood prone areas in the three regions of the North, which have been badly hit by rainstorms lately. The tour provided him the opportunity to carry out a firsthand assessment of the recent disasters and show solidarity to the victims of the nine (9) districts, which were devastated by violent winds. Mr. Amissah-Arthur toured the Gushegu Senior High School which had a number of classroom blocks destroyed as a result of the storm, leaving close to 2000 students currently displaced. The Vice President used the opportunity to assure the students and the school authorities that, the government would do its best to ensure that structures were put in place as early as possible, to prevent the interruption of the academic calendar. He appealed to the students to continue to take their studies seriously while government made plans to put the structures back to form. During a brief stop at the Palace of the Paramount Chief of Mamprugu, Nayiri, Naa Bohagu Mahami Abdulai Sheriga, Vice President Amissah-Arthur appealed to the people to avoid conflicts saying, "Ghana needs peace for development adding “we cannot develop if there is constant conflict.” According to the Vice President government could no longer continue to expend its scarce resources on conflicts that took lives of people and rendered so many people refugees in their own land. He later visited the Gbewaa Palace which also had its fair share of the disaster caused by the windstorm. The Regent of Dagbon, Kampakuya-Naa, Yakubu Abdulai commended the government for sending relief items to the people. The Vice President also urged the people to take the government’s Greening Ghana programme seriously since that would lessen the effects of disasters on the area